Thursday, June 27, 2013

Smirks

"I can’t remember a time when we weren’t, as a society, bemoaning the death of reading. In 1930s parents were complaining about the radio preventing their children from going outdoors or reading great literature. In the 1950s, the great devil was television. In the 1970s, arcade games. In the 80s, video games. In the 90s, the Internet. And now, of course, social media. I’m sure sixty years from now, when our youngest students are grandparents, they will be decrying the death of literate society and vilifying the new media of their day, looking back with nostalgia on how ‘everybody read’ when they were young."
 - Rick Riordan, 2013

Point being, there will always be room for, and followers of any form of, learning and recreation. 

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