Censorship is the Child of Fear...

“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”

-Laurie Halse Anderson

Learning How to Think

"Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience."

- David Foster Wallace
(from his 2005 commencement speech)

"If the young are not initiated..."

"If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."

- AFRICAN PROVERB