Quote of the Week | Edgar Allan Poe
October is marked by the conspicuous onslaught of Halloween. Stick-on scarecrows pose brokenly in shop windows. Ghostface masks pop-up in drug stores. Pumpkin spice lattes dilute the otherwise smoky smell of the city. In books, memoirs and biographies are set aside in...
Quote of the Week | Mohandas Gandhi
October 2nd marks The International Day of Non-Violence, a 24-hour period set aside by the United Nations to "disseminate the message of nonviolence" and work towards "a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and nonviolence" throughout the world....
Quote of the Week | Harriet Beecher Stowe
Banned Books Week September 24–30, 2017 "Book banning" is as antiquated a term as it is a practice – isn't it? Not according to the American Library Association. Between 2000 and 2009 alone, more than 5,000 challenges to remove books from libraries and schools were...
Quote of the Week | Tom Wolfe
Well, everyone, we've made it to week two. First and foremost, congratulations. Between classes, assignments, and publishing events, we've all hit the ground running. For returning students, the transition from summer to fall is a familiar one. For new students, many...
Quote of the Week | John Irving
Quotes on Education are a dime a dozen on the Internet (please excuse the cliched use of this idiom). Some are real gems, and some are too earnest to post this early-on in the year. Since we’re all embarking on our first full week of the semester, however, education...
"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong." -Sarah Dessen - Sarah Dessen is a New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen Young Adult fiction novels. Her books have been published in over thirty countries and have...