Was sitting in Starbucks today with ST and I was reading Discovery Channel magazines. I was interested in one of the feature articles and jumped directly to it.
"Hmm.. it's at page 71".
Flip, Flip.
"Page 60. A pinch of pages shall do it."
Pinch.
"Page 80? Ok, I'll go back."
Pinch.
"Page 60? What the?..."
On examination, I found out someone tore out pages 70-79. Okay, so you like the article, but the magazine isn't yours! Ownership issues aside, I wouldn't destroy a publication like that.
Over the years, I noted that browsers in bookstops tend to take very little care of books. They flip the pages without care; they load another heavy book on top of the one they had just opened up to read. Are these book lovers?
In libraries, books suffer from being deliberately dog-eared, highlighted, noted on, cut out, torn out. It puzzles me; it upsets me. Lack of morals? Or a lack of appreciation of books?
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What knowledge and skills are worthwhile learning? What are the goals of education? - An old teaching.
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