Saturday, May 14, 2011

Desiderius Erasmus on the Influence of books

No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them
with books, if he has the means to buy them.
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes
The desire to write grows with writing.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Real poverty is the lack of books
It is important early to instil a taste for the best things into the
minds of children, and I cannot see that anything is learned with
greater success than what is learned by playing, and this is, in
truth, a very harmless kind of fraud, to trick a person into his own
profit.

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