An Attempt to Bring Together a Variety of Recent Issues
I know the hoopla about Terry Deary is old news already, but I keep thinking about it, circling back around to it.
Despite my powerful and vociferous reaction to his statements about the value of public libraries, there’s something about this situation that still isn’t resolved in my mind. And I think I know what it is.
Terry Deary is absolutely, 100% wrong about the “concept behind libraries”. Which begs an essential question:
How did a well-educated, literate man come to view public libraries so wrongly in the first place?
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