鈥淗ow many times can you fall in love? By reading, you can fall in love every time you begin a new book or reread a treasured one.鈥� 鈥擠onalyn Miller
In The Council Chronicle article, 鈥�,鈥� Donalyn Miller tells how she helps her students fall in love with books, about building a culture of reading and a community of readers in her classroom.
Donalyn Miller鈥檚 ideas are embodied in the 鈥檚 mission. The Center advocates for so they can grow into the best citizens that our democracy needs. And, we trust our educators to know what is best for their kids.
This echoes what what Thomas Jefferson said several centuries ago,
“The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny are] to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large鈥︹��
That鈥檚 why censorship is a problem in a democracy like America where we want each student to grow up to be a responsible, critically thinking citizen.
Not many places in the world put such a powerful freedom as the freedom to read in the hands of its people.