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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Marguerite Theophil
Times of India, 16th November, 2016
The library attendant in a school complained that the young children were restless, often hit each other, got into fights, and treated the books badly, scribbling in them and tearing pages. We were surprised till we saw for ourselves that this was true, but also that she was sadly incapable of interesting them in books, and simply set in front of each child a book that she pulled from the locked-up cupboard, saying ‘Read’.
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