LIBRARIES FOREVER

Seth Godin is the world's most popular business blogger.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/learning-all-the-time.html

The #1 habit successful people share with me is this: They read books to learn. They do it often and with joy. It's cheap (or free, at the library or online) and portable and specific.


And from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway:
"Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger," page 479:

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time–none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren [Buffett] reads–and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

"I wasn't sure I could pass it."--Warren Buffett

"There was also a rule that because I was an officer of a securities firm
I had to take the Series 7 exam [for stockbrokers]. I kept delaying it until I left
because I wasn't sure I could pass it."

[ Source: "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett, 2009 WOODSTOCK EDITION," by Andy Kilpatrick, Chapter 6: WHO'S WARREN BUFFETT?, pages 35-36.
In the 2008 COSMIC EDITION, page 29.
In the 2007 INTERNATIONAL EDITION, page 39.
In the 2006 LITERARY EDITION, page 41.]

Let's include this in our campaign here in NYC to attenuate the
OUT-OF-CONTROL TESTING (OOCT) going on. [OOCT is a direct result of policy emanating from the brain of a death penalty litigation expert.]

OOCT continues to deprive children of play time and access to arts, music and dance programs.

Along with Warren's children's names -- Susan and Peter, whose foundations helped fund the
Alliance for Childhood report "Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School" --
let's use it to persuade Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein to ease up on testing, testing, testing and teaching to the test hypermania.