Education should teach us to be tolerant and respectful of differences. These virtues cannot be taught in a classroom that bans books with "unacceptable" ideas.
We read to explore life in certain historical periods, cultures and regions.
We read to examine problems of human justice, to explore basic issues of race, class, sex and age.
By encountering many different and conflicting ideas and beliefs, we learn to think critically, to ask intelligent questions and to form our own opinion.
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