Points: The library and its books — How It whets appetite for reading more books — The library as teacher.
I love my school. I also love my school Library. I had seen the film ‘Pather Panchali’ by Satyajit Ray. But it was in our library that I read the original book by Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay. The librarian loved me very much, He asked me to read R. L. Stevension’s Treasure Island. I liked the book very much. It gave me the first taste1 of travel and adventure. I borrowed Mahatma Gandhi’s My Experiments with Truth and Jawaharlal Nehru’s Autobiography. I also read the lives of Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. I then read Rabindranath’s Gora in the original and Munshi Premchand’s Godan in translation. Both were great novels and left a profound impression upon my mind.
One day a teacher suggested that I should read Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. The very next day I borrowed the book from our library. The tales were absorbing. My curiosity was roused so much that I read two plays of Shakespeare in the original—Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet. I could not follow everything. But what I could follow was not little. I still love to recite Mark Antony’s speech, “Friends, Romans, countrymen” which I memorized.
I am indebted for my learning to my teachers. But I should say that one of my best teachers has been the library.
I love my school. I also love my school Library. I had seen the film ‘Pather Panchali’ by Satyajit Ray. But it was in our library that I read the original book by Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay. The librarian loved me very much, He asked me to read R. L. Stevension’s Treasure Island. I liked the book very much. It gave me the first taste1 of travel and adventure. I borrowed Mahatma Gandhi’s My Experiments with Truth and Jawaharlal Nehru’s Autobiography. I also read the lives of Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. I then read Rabindranath’s Gora in the original and Munshi Premchand’s Godan in translation. Both were great novels and left a profound impression upon my mind.
One day a teacher suggested that I should read Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. The very next day I borrowed the book from our library. The tales were absorbing. My curiosity was roused so much that I read two plays of Shakespeare in the original—Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet. I could not follow everything. But what I could follow was not little. I still love to recite Mark Antony’s speech, “Friends, Romans, countrymen” which I memorized.
I am indebted for my learning to my teachers. But I should say that one of my best teachers has been the library.
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