The Importance of Reading

In todays world we receive so much information via radio, television and multimedia experiences yet none of these mediums of communication has the ability to educate as in the fundamental skill of reading.
When examining how well a nation is doing and how likely its economic situation is often the literacy rate is included. When this figure is low the country is more likely to be an economic backwater, government is likely to be poor or a dictatorship, corruption widespread and a there’s a wide lack of universities and experts.
Countries that have recently experience improving economic fortunes have increased their populations education level.
The easiest way to educate any problem is to teach them the skill of reading. If you can read you have open to you a world of knowled. The ability to read means that you can educate yourself to overcome problems.
Even in this day of multimedia, reading is still the most essential skill to acquire knowledge. The internet has meant that information is freely available to anyone who can log on. However, to absorb, teach and learn that information reading is required.
The advent of computers and the Internet also leads us into a feeling that reading may be old fashioned and unnecessary. And here is a problem! How does information in the computer get into the human mind? Until someone invents a connection into our brain, we have to "read" it. And so we come full circle, in order to use the Internet and be part of it, you have to have the skills of reading.
That points to the importance of reading skills in education. Teachers sholud always encourage studenst to read. Schools must provide the opportunity to use reading skills within the curriculum.Parents have to be involved in setting an environment for reading at home too. As a society, we need to form a reading habit that continues for a lifetime.