"Freedom to live and to think about life for its own sake is important and even essential to a child. Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned." -John Holt.
I say, decent books in Malaysia is rather expensive, if one were to buy from the bookstores. Dumb-down books (read : locally publish, highly truncated version of famous stories) are cheaper but they are not much of use when the illustration is boring and the story is truncated so much that the original story is lost and it can;t hold the attention of a toddler.
So to buy good books, we have to resort to buying used books like the good people in Payless is providing. Or book sales or expo, where there will be great discount. That will stretch our ringgit. And finally, we (and relatives) are members of a few public libraries in Klang valley, and we visit and borrow religiously. Thank goodness for that.
That's our way of making sure that there are enough reading material in the house at any one time, to fuel their life, in general.
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I say, decent books in Malaysia is rather expensive, if one were to buy from the bookstores. Dumb-down books (read : locally publish, highly truncated version of famous stories) are cheaper but they are not much of use when the illustration is boring and the story is truncated so much that the original story is lost and it can;t hold the attention of a toddler.
So to buy good books, we have to resort to buying used books like the good people in Payless is providing. Or book sales or expo, where there will be great discount. That will stretch our ringgit. And finally, we (and relatives) are members of a few public libraries in Klang valley, and we visit and borrow religiously. Thank goodness for that.
That's our way of making sure that there are enough reading material in the house at any one time, to fuel their life, in general.
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