When the library has reopened, the Khalidi cousins are planning workshops aimed at young Jerusalemites, and they want to teach book-binding, calligraphy and manuscript restoration.
Nor will they dare to teach books considered offensive to anyone in their community, like Huckleberry Finn.
Furthermore, even if some find stories such as Oliver Twist equally harrowing (despite their historical distance), we should at the very least teach books that present a different world.
By 1981, it was the second most taught book in the United States.
Alongside the works of Shakespeare and Twain, To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most widely taught books nationwide, reaching an estimated 70% of American public schools.
At Rylstone he taught book-keeping and business, and he was promoted to the high school at Kandos.
They taught books by Hispanic authors that students were rarely exposed to otherwise, and they studied overlooked episodes of Latino history in the United States.
But some schoolteachers decided, instead, to teach the book.
I asked why she doesn't teach other books of wisdom — Confucian books, for example — and Jeon jumped in to answer.
