[CALIBK12] A St ory to Brighten Your Day

[Diane & Wayne Oestreich]

Dear Purveyors of the "Spices of Education,"

I highly recommend that you click on the link below and read the article about the man who read a romance novel at age 19 in his native Ethiopia and was so impacted by the idea of reading for pleasure that ended up coming to the United States and then returning to his native country as a librarian.  Maybe some of you may have met him; he worked at the San Francisco Public Library.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/30/heroes.ethiopia/index.html?eref=rss_latest

I love what he said about pleasure reading:
  “Most Ethiopian children have only access to textbooks in the classroom.  Books children read outside of school (or books they read besides textbooks- my comment), those are the spices of education.”
  - George Gebregeorgis, Addis Ababa Librarian
  
May his tribe increase!




"Without the ability to read and argue we're just geese to be plucked."
John Taylor Gatto, Eyeless in Gaza 


Diane Oestreich, Librarian 
Fullerton Union High School 
201 E. Chapman Avenue 
Fullerton, CA 92832 
714-626-3877 
Fax: 714-626-3862


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