“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”
As quoted in The 21st Century Elementary Library Media Program (2009) by Carl A. Harvey, p. 3
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First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 1946Related quotes

As quoted in Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers, Vol. 12, Issue 2 : Laura Bush by Joanne Mattern (2003), p. 34

“Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.”
Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 115
“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”
Source: The Library at Night

“[R]arely is the question asked: Are… is our children learning?”
Campaign speech http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/14/news/mn-53988/2, Florence, South Carolina, (January 11, 2000) Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej7ZEnjSeA&feature=related
2000s, 2000
Anatol Rapoport, "Modern Systems Theory – An Outlook for Coping with Change", paper given in the 1970 John Umstead Distinguished Lectures at North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Research Division, on 5 February 1970, and appeared in Revue Francaise de Sociologie, October 1969, p. 16
1970s and later