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Banning Books in School Libraries
Title: Banning Books in School Libraries
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1444 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Banning Books in School Libraries
Censorship in School Libraries
The most debatable and controversial form of censorship today is the
banning of books in school libraries. Banning books that educate
students is wrong and selfish. Censorship of books in school libraries
is neither uncommon nor an issue of the past. Books with artistic and
cultural worth are still challenged constantly by those who want to
control what others read. The roots of bigotry and illiteracy that
fuel efforts to censor …showed first 75 words of 1444 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1444 total…or that portrays unpleasant realities of life.
The ideas and information absorbed from these banned books topple the
walls of hate and fear and build bridges of cooperation and
understanding far more effectively than weapons.
George Orwell's classic 1984 painted a bleak picture of a mind-
controlled, book burning society in which creative thinking was
forbidden. If the censorship in school libraries continues
to expand, the society portrayed in the book may even become reality.
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