A dictionary teaches a child how to approach a problem and use critical thinking skills by sounding out the word and finding it in the dictionary. This simple task gives them a feeling of self-confidence and satisfaction that they cannot get online.

Philip D’Angelo, Superintendent, Rotary Club of Skaneateles, Skaneateles Central School District, Skaneateles, NY

Today’s world is highly technical. Sometimes we forget how things were done before the internet and hand-held technical devices. The dictionaries that Rotary gave to our students grounded them in a return to a tactile information source. I think the gift of the dictionaries served two (2) purposes: to give them a great information source and to ground them in an example of a printed resource. Students can use the internet, but they can “own” a dictionary.
Thanks!