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4/ Photo from Pixabay
Journaling is Ray Bradbury's account of his education:
"I’m completely
library educated. I’ve
never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade
school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every
summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee
Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That
way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn’t want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my
hands before I read them. But with the library, it’s like catnip, I suppose: you begin to
run in circles because there’s so much to look at and read. And it’s far more
fun than going to school, simply because you make up your own list and you don’t have to listen to anyone. When I would see some of the books my kids were forced to bring home and read by some of their
teachers, and were graded on—well, what if you don’t like those books?
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in
love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from
dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten
years and finally, in 1947, around the
time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school."
