Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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A 21st Century Book Burning. Most of us, especially older persons who grew up with books, Distinctly remember historical films, showing books being thrown into bonfires. Since the 1400's-Gutenburg printing press was invented, Education and information about the world was multiplied by many factors; So it was with the creation of organized educational institutions. Today, the slow 'destruction' (ie 'burning') of educational organizations. Formerly reaching out to free thought and encouraging individual choices of ideas, Is peeking out at the adumbrations of a terrible one-sided educational format, Which will stymie the present, golden-age of knowledge-seeking. In a democratic, free-thinking world, one must be exposed To all thought, discuss everything , and freely make up one's own mind. Frank Maurer 24 April 2025 2020 Hours.