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Many schools in the state do not have libraries, parents, teachers and others focus on text book and examination oriented reading. Sending children to private coaching, tuition repeat reading of the text books have all led to the damage of the spit of exploration, imagination, creativity and emotion of a child, observed well known short story writer Sadananda Tripathy.
Nothing can replace the importance of visiting a library as it enables the child to explore new books and a truer life, he said. Tripathy was speaking at a meeting organized by the Koraput Shaitua Parivar here . He was speaking on the impact of the exposure to the school library when he was a student of Harihar High School in Aska .
He was grateful to his teachers and the librarian who were kind enough to support his desire to meet the hunger of reading books outside the prescribed text books. While there was a provision of getting one book from the school library per week , looking at his keen desire to read more, his teachers used to help him get more books.
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They had also given sufficient scope to be a master of his selection without drawing strict boundary line like imposing their selection of books on the child.
This freedom had prompted him to read more than 150 books written by famous writers before he completed his matriculation, he added. He wished if the same trend could be followed now and children are encouraged to read books.
Children need to read more story books and live with the numerous characters in each story, they should also make a habit of reading the stories in the text books as stories rather than treating them as some subject to be remembered to score good marks in the examinations, he said.
Parents should also desist from imposing themselves on the child, he said while stating that his parents wanted him to be an engineer but they never imposed it on him.
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