Local libraries “are often peopled with … students who can’t find a quiet place at home to work.… Denying these children the space and silence to study and contemplate the past that the better-off may be able to find in a spare room of their house is nothing short of social discrimination at its worst.” Leslie fears a return to a time “when only the elite could afford silence.”
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction – Alan Jacobs – Oxford University Press 11:22am on June 24, 2017