Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, Dec 02, 2005
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, Dec 02, 2005 |
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Opinion
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Letters Library hour in schools
It is good to hear that the Government of Kerala will give serious consideration to the suggestion to include a weekly `library period' in the timetable of the State's schools. The Department of Education will also make the library room a compulsory part of a school's building plan. For quite sometime educationists have been complaining about the poor reading habits of school children, and there exists a glaring lack of general knowledge even among college students. More than 90 per cent of them do not even read newspapers, not to speak of books and journals. Even the little use to which libraries were put has declined after the arrival of Internet. While most browse the Net very few read books. One wonders why the Kerala Government did not think of giving importance to libraries earlier. Anyway, better late than never. V. S. Venkatavaradan Salem
Letters to the editor and contributions can be sent by e-mail to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
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