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< I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education,  >
< the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an     >
< impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to     >
< wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge       >
< through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which       >
< library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American    >
< society has found one more way to destroy itself.                                                   >
< Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir                                                                   >
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