A book is a door to a new world. When someone writes, they choose their words carefully so that the story flows, makes sense, and goes along with what they are writing about. Everything from the scenario to the way a certain character speaks is thought out and brought to life by a few simple scratches on a page. Some people want to suppress the writings of geniuses just because of an image, idea, or phrase on the grounds that they are morally objectionable by the standards applied by a censor. It's been like this for centuries. As long as someone has something to say, another will be there to try to stop them. Schools have been doing this for a long time and it needs to be stopped. Censorship of books in schools should not be allowed as many students will never experience classic literature if they are not exposed to it early. "Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides free access to all expressions of ideas through which all aspects of an issue, cause or movement may be explored Intellectual freedom includes the freedom to hold, receive, and disseminate ideas,” he said at the Question & Answer on Intellectual Freedom and Censorship. If this is the case, then we are limiting the amount of knowledge that i children could potentially acquire by reading a novel deemed "explicit" by the censors. Other times it happens in the most obvious way, even for the person who does it while carefully selecting a book and not the one right next to it to read in class simple choices, but that's also censoring even if that word is... middle of the paper... in, Jen. "Borders for Contemporary Literature: The Role of Censorship and Choice." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 57.1 (2013): 7-11. Print.Duthie, Fiona. “Libraries and the Ethics of Censorship.” Australian Library Journal 59.3 (2010): 86-94. Print.Foerstel, Herbert N. Banned in the United States: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. Print.Maxwell, Marilyn, and Marlene Berman. “To ban or not to ban: Addressing the problem of censorship in the English classroom.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 41.2 (1997): 92. Print.National Coalition Against Censorship. “Censorship in Schools: Learning, Speaking, and Thinking Freely: The First Amendment in Schools.” Censorship in Schools: Learning, Speaking, and Thinking Freely: The First Amendment in Schools. WebJunction, March 21, 2012. Web. February 10. 2014.