Good suggestion On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Gurumurthy K <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com> wrote: > dear teachers, > > Wishing you all 'Happy learning' on Saraswathi Pooja day today. Perhaps the > most important gift of learning we can give our students, is to make them > fall in love with books.... through our school library... read story below > > ".... Working and living in migrant farmworkers’ fields, the conditions were > pretty terrible. My parents were alcoholics, and I was beaten and abused and > neglected. I learned to fight with a knife long before I learned how to ride > a bicycle. > > When you are grinding day after day after day, there’s nothing to aspire to > except filling your hungry belly. You may walk down the street and see a row > of nice, clean houses, but you never, ever dream you can live in one. You > don’t dream. You don’t hope. > > When I was twelve, a bookmobile came to the fields. I thought it was the > Baptists, because they used to come in a van and give us blankets and food. > So I went over and peeked in, and it was filled with books. I immediately — > and I do mean immediately — stepped back. I wasn’t allowed to have books, > because books are heavy, and when you’re moving a lot you have to keep > things minimal. Of course, I had read in the short periods I was allowed to > go to school, but I’d not ever owned a book. > > Fortunately, the staff member saw me and waved me in. I was nervous. The > bookmobile person said, “These are books, and you can take one home. Just > bring it back in two weeks.” I’m like, “What’s the catch?” He explained > there was no catch. Then he asked me what I was interested in. > > The night before, an elder had told us a story about the day that Mount > Rainier blew up and the devastation from the volcano. So I told the > bookmobile person that I was nervous about the mountain blowing up, and he > said, “You know, the more you know about something, the less you will fear > it.” And he gave me a book about volcanoes. Then I saw a book about > dinosaurs, and I said, “Oh, that looks neat,” so he gave me that. Then he > gave me a book about a little boy whose family were farmers. I took them all > home and devoured them. > > I came back in two weeks, and he gave me more books, and that started it. By > the time I was fifteen, I knew there was a world outside the camps, and I > believed I could find a place in it. I had read about people like me and not > like me. I had seen how huge the world was, and it gave me the courage to > leave. And I did. It taught me that hope was not just a word. > > When I left, I went to vocational school, and I graduated with a > stenographer’s degree. Then, when Pierce County Library had an opening, I > applied and was hired. I got to spend thirty-two years helping other people > make a connection with the library. I have a deep, abiding commitment to > them. Libraries save lives. > > read the rest of the article > brainpickings.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=13eb080d8a315477042e0d5b1&id=1c5e73bed9&e=ced67c99b1 > > regards, Guru > > IT for Change, Bengaluru > www.ITforChange.net > > -- > EnglishSTF Link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/englishstf > > -- > > *For doubts on Ubuntu and other public software, visit > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions > > **Are you using pirated software? Use Sarvajanika Tantramsha, see > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ > ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ > ***If a teacher wants to join STF-read > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Become_a_STF_groups_member > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "EnglishSTF" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to englishstf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to englishstf@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/englishstf. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/englishstf/CANJf2f9OurEpBO53LPQQuBymeBRqHn8Baq%3DobUThAnpysEb2_g%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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