Friday, March 8, 2013
Can't stop reading!
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We gave out issue no. 3.1 of the Young Voices newsletter when we visited Young Writers clubs this week. These photos are from Lady Patricia Kabba Memorial Junior Secondary School in Goderich. We couldn't get anyone to stop reading and get on with their own writing until they'd finished the whole paper!
Get your own copy here, and let us know how you like it. The Young Writers authors would like your feedback. Appropriate reading materials are SO needed in Sierra Leone! There is no doubt that education is in a dire state in Sierra Leone as you can see in this article, but when reading materials are appropriate and when reading materials are available, students everywhere in the world will do their best to read.
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"The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay." E.B. White (1899-1985)
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