The classroom, in its prevailing form, is a strange room. It is shaped like a theatre, treated like a courtroom, and measured like a factory. The library, by contrast, is a room shaped by the act of seeking. People go to libraries because they want to find something. People go to classrooms, mostly, because they have been told to.

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