I covered a story at a local school the other day. The Rotary Club purchased a dictionary/resource book for every third grader in the county and they were delivering to a school in my newspaper's coverage area. The students eagerly tore open the books when they received them.
"I never had my own dictionary before," said one student. "I never knew they could be so cool."
The dictionaries contain sign language, braille, periodic tables, geographical information, and many other things that might expand the minds of these young students and show them the world.
One of the Rotarians told me, "You know one of our members is very upset that we are doing this."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because we bought dictionaries that contained an Arab calendar."
God forbid that we should try to understand anything at all about another culture. Why didn't they just burn those books when they came? That's what they would have done in Nazi Germany if the books had contained parts of the Torah.
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