Reading May Help Stop The Decline In Language And Culture

By Barbara Morgan


Sometimes it seems that young people are losing the ability to communicate effectively. Texting abbreviations have resulted in a whole new language of acronyms that make adults cringe. For parents who wish to combat this tendency, they are encouraged to create an environment conducive to basic reading.

To read is to learn new words, and new forms of illustrative language. With improvements in their ability to spell and comprehend information, they suddenly have an edge over many other students. It is sad that in this day of the information superhighway, we have adults who struggle to read a newspaper, yet they do not regard themselves as being illiterate.

Taking in a book on a rainy day can be like going on an adventure without ever leaving the room. Playing video games or watching television does not impact the creative imagination in a way that a good book can. Potential employers are not going to care what a young person watches or what games they play, but they will be effected by the presence of typographical errors on their resume.

Children who grow up around adults who read are more likely to be interested in engaging in this behavior themselves. It starts out as a way to interact with the parent, and eventually becomes a way the child makes their parents proud. As they enter their teen years, parents can encourage them by pretending certain books are taboo and stick them on the top shelf.

A child with excellent grammatical skills will always have an edge over others, throughout their lives. It makes learning easier, and ease of learning will make school more enjoyable for them in the long run. Young people who enjoy learning are much more likely to go on to seek an education from a university, and this can result in a more rewarding and successful career.

College alone is not enough to ensure success, and certainly does not ensure that a person lead a rich and full life. Many people view school as a necessary, albeit unpleasant hurdle. Once they complete their required courses, they tend to surrender themselves to mindless entertainments that in no way make them better people in the long run.

The Internet is an excellent tool for anyone to utilize in the pursuit of knowledge. However, it appears that gaming, pornography, and basic nonsense posing as comedy is the only thing that people pursue on this World Wide Web anymore. Our brains are no different than our bodies when it comes to garbage in, garbage out, and this fact is clearly seen throughout society.

If this continues, we face becoming a society without writers, poets, or thinkers of any kind. The future generations have been spoon fed games that increase adrenaline rather than intelligence. It causes one who thinks to stop and ponder what sort of society will spring forward from the dredges of a society that put more importance on entertainment than education.




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