You Don’t Have To Burn Books To Destroy A Culture

Ray Bradbury redirects the attention given to the banning (and burning) of books, and turns it back on culture itself.

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You Don’t Have To Burn Books To Destroy A Culture

Saw this quote earlier this afternoon on twitter via TeachThought favorite @brainpicker–Ray Bradbury on culture–and it seemed worth a post of its own rather than a simple RT. And for some reason I hadn’t seen it.

In it, Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451 and other timeless novels surveying themes of censorship, creativity, and intellectual suppression, redirects the attention given to the banning (and burning) of books, and turns it  back on culture itself.

Terry Heick

Terry Heick

Founder of TeachThought

B.A., English; M.Ed. 10 years of classroom teaching experience. Specializes in critical thinking, literacy, and artificial intelligence in education.