Banned Books Week Quote from ASCD Inservice Blog

“Banning books is so utterly hopeless and futile.  Ideas don’t die because a book is forbidden reading.”- Gretchen Knief, librarian, protesting a proposed 1939 ban against The Grapes of Wrath

Found on the ASCD Inservice blog.  Visit the blog to leave a comment about your school’s stance on controversial books. 

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  1. Impromptu Banned Books Week Carnival « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    […] School Library Media Activities Monthly carries this simple quote: “Banning books is so utterly hopeless and futile.

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