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The Lower School Library is dedicated to fostering a love of literature
in all students.
We want to encourage children to love books, to love to read, and become lifetime
readers.
In the Library
Children who read succeed. The most significant part of a child's mental
growth between the ages of three and seven is the ability to imagine. Books boost
imagination. Our popular television culture degrades imagination.
TV and video are now our national babysitters. But a young child's growing
mind needs active play and live conversation. Television puts a child into what
neurologists call the passive Alpha state. A child cannot learn from screens because
programs are meant to sell products not to teach.
Much like the first news about tobacco and cholesterol, early studies
now link overdoses of TV, video games and pop music with learning disabilities,
attention deficiency, speech defects and aggressive behavior.
Screen watching makes a child a follower and a consumer. Books exist
because of the power of human ideas. Readers are leaders and producers.
After a tiring day nothing is more restful than reading
with a child on your lap. Reading aloud offers a world of privacy, dignity, and
love to both of you.
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