Libraries hold a sensual and dignified place for me and for most people who have grown up reading in them. Something about being surrounded by mountainous shelves of literary works makes one feel humbled by all that they do not know and have available to learn.
However, this idea of books being bigger than one person is passé for the administrators at Cushing Academy, a Prep School near Boston. Instead of being encompassed by knowledge, they have chosen to shrink the literary experience into iPhone form. “When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,” said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing.
As much as this writer likes the current age of laptops and online information, I have to admit this move by the Prep School disheartens me in a way that just makes me want to go to a library, sit in an old musty chair and read a book.
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