That opinion might not be wrong. But let's consider this. My previous job is to provide scholarship to disadvantaged children in order to keep them at school, every year, I had to visit more than 100 cases, part of the questionnaire, we asked "What would you want to be when you grow up?". There are 60 children would say they wanted to be a police officer, 20 of them would state they wanted to be a teacher, about 10 would like to be a factory worker just like their parents, and the rest said they did not know what they wanted to be when they are older.
Why police officer? Why teacher? Why factory worker?
Why not astronaut? Why not scientist? Why not social worker?
Because they do not have chance to see the world as big as it is, they see the world as big as the rice field, with the village, with the cows, with the river, with the police officer lives next door, with the teacher at school, and their parents.They do not have a chance to read an adventure books, or to travel to other planet with the Little Prince, or know the story of the cat who teaches the seagull to fly, ect. They don't even have a book at home, except for the text books. So...why not books? Why not libraries? The children may be hungry for food, they may not have a proper house, but The Library Project gives them a chance to dream, we spark in them a desire to grow bigger. It's said "dream is like the Great Bear stars, ones never touch to the stars, but without it, we're all lost"
A book gives a child a compass to find a way.
