Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman
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There are times when I've been so depressed I can't see straight. At my age I should have been 80 percent in bonds. I could have had a comfortable income sitting on my duff. Instead, I had to go back to work.
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That kind of local information is unique. So putting it online and making it available to the public -- it's invaluable.
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It's a perpetual problem, and it attacks fundamental American liberties -- the attempt to impose one's own positions on society as a whole,
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Individuals and communities need to be able to find high-quality, accurate information about issues that concern them, such as the health and safety of their families and communities.
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It all stems from a fearfulness of well-meaning people. We believe in parental responsibility, and that you should take care of what your children are reading. But it's not your responsibility to tell a whole class of kids what they should read.
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If you're a freedom-to-read person, pulling a book like that one is not that different from any book that might have fake scholarship. No matter how wrong a book might be, people should have access to it. It's a slippery slope once you start removing books like that.
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It's appalling -- it's really astounding. Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder.
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What displaced people desperately need it is knowledge and information, and that's what public libraries do.
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There is a failure in the core values of education. They're told to go to college in order to get a better job -- and that's okay. But the real task is to produce educated people.