I actually have this one printed up and hanging in my library.  I believe it can be credited to Jerry Hanson.

Eighty percent of all books have been published since 1980.  Eighty percent of those would have been better off left as trees...

I once helped a child of a friend of mine do a book report and was shocked at the garbage that the schools have the kids read.  Some of the books that they are REQUIRED to read have lesbian overtones, violence, cuss words and these are elementary school kids.  I can not tell you the excuses given.  Well, we know these books have some "questionable" material, but they help kids to see they need to not be ashamed who they are.  Am I the only human being on the planet that has read Ann of Green Gables?  Little House on the Prairie? Around the World in Eighty Days?

I feel sorry for public school kids.  They will grow up thinking that the drivel handed to them in class is good literature, when the only usefullness it serves is to line a bird cage. They will never know what joy reading the truely great literary works until they are adults.  They will miss out on the awe and excitement that only a child can experience.

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