I was originally looking for the last quote on this list, but a couple of
other people (thank you!) sent some really inspiring ones I thought this
community would enjoy. As we began our first day of in-service today and many of
you are preparing for a new school year, take heart:
"Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book
recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was
solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight
overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas
and
without ideas, well, where are we?" --- from The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted
from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers,
drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without
tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective
knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth
of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for
the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries. ~Carl
Sagan, Cosmos
The richest person in the world. In fact all the riches in the world —
couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at
your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom
of a civilization, a nation, a people, by the priority given to preserving
these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be. Malcolm
Forbes
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great
civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries
stand
virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may
enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is
charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for
themselves, very few say "touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space
is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the
possibilities that dwell in you. Toni Morrison
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of
an ignorant nation." ~ Walter Cronkite (1916- )
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about
education. –Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
Julie Dahlhauser, librarian
Anderson Early Childhood Center
620 West Main Street
Brownsville, Tennessee USA 38012
JulDahl@aol.com
dahlhauserj@k12tn.net
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