Monday, November 19, 2007

Quote-Unquote

"The poorest Americans who read did twice as much volunteering and charity work as the richest who did not read. The habit of regular reading awakens something inside a person that makes him or her take their own life more seriously and at the same time develops the sense that other people's lives are real."

-NEA Chairman Dana Gioia. This line is a bright spot in an article about reading rates among young people, which have been in a nosedive for the last 20 years.

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