Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers

This looks at recent book bannings in Texas schools further.

Mukilteo School District votes to remove ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ from required reading

A school district has voted to remove To Kill a Mockingbird from required reading.

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

-H.P. Lovecraft

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

-Jonathan Swift

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

-George Orwell

In this video, people from Burning Man recite Dr. Seuss’ last book.

“Reading a good book is like having conversations with the finest minds of the past.”

-Rene Descartes

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

-Ernest Hemingway

“We don’t know the days that will change our lives.”

-Stephen King