Importance of Reading

The Importance of Reading Imagine walking in for a job interview; the supervisor hands you an application to fill out and after sitting down and staring at it blankly for a couple minutes the humiliation gets to you and you finally admit that you cannot read. The supervisor then politely thanks you for coming in, but says there is no way he can hire anybody who cannot read. Reading is more important than ever in today's society. If you cannot read well than you will find it hard to have a successful career, earn people's respect, and even operate in your daily life. The importance of reading becomes grows more and more everyday. With all the technology that we have today people think that they do not have to read as much when actually you probably need to be able to read better. For example, if you get some new program that will make your job easier on you because you cannot read, how are going to learn how to use it. It is important to learn how to read at a young age. It is even easier to learn how to read at a young age because young kids are more interesting in reading than high school kids. However, if you teach a child to read at a young age you will give them a gift that will always keep on giving and maybe they will always love reading good books, even if all the people they hang around do not read. Even before the kid can read it helps if the parent will read to them. This helps to get the child interested in reading books. Once you get a child interested they will start wanting to read on their own and gradually they will learn. Children who read well will almost always do better in schoolwork and all other aspects of life. Another benefit of teaching kids to read is that reading will keep them out of trouble. While they are reading they will not be out on the town doing drugs and all that other bad stuff. Also, reading stimulates a child's mind and if they are reading a book about a sporting even than the book might influence them to get out and exercise themselves. If a kid gets tired of reading books you can start letting them read newspapers and maybe even magazines. Then they are not only reading good stories, but they are also keeping up to date on current events and what is going on in the world. Even if they are not a good enough reader to read all of the newspaper you could still read it to them and explain what some of the bigger words meant to them if they wanted to and it would still get them interested.
Another thing to do that helps keep children out of trouble is to take them to the library every now and then. The library could be a wonderful place for children to bud into avid learners and great readers. Obviously there are plenty of books there for them to read, but that is not all that the library has in store for the children of America. Besides books, most libraries have computers with Internet access where the children can explore the Internet in a controlled environment where they will be safe from the world of pornography, gambling and all the other bad things the Internet has to offer. Another thing the library has is places on the computer to look up old newspaper articles. That could be interesting to children to see what happened to their ancestors or anybody else they knew, or maybe they could just look through the old newspapers and see what kind of stuff was going on a long time ago. The problem is that not all of the libraries are as advanced as others and some of the children are not receiving the same opportunities that others are when they decide they want to read and discover new things in their local library. People need to help out their local libraries by giving donations because it is so important that our children have the tools and resources they need to get a good education.
Parents are not the only people that can help out the children. Other adults and even high school kids or college students could help out young people by volunteering and reading to kids, or maybe helping out in a library. There are so many ways to help out; people can also donate books and other equipment to libraries.
Even though public libraries are very useful to children, not every community has one available for their use. That is why it is also important for people to help out the libraries at local schools. Not only can you donate books, but you could also spend time at the school helping out the librarian. Many people do not realize how much work librarians have to do. They are always working, especially at schools. Students are always trying to check out books or looking for information for research they are doing and librarians are always very happy to help out the eager students. People need to follow the example that librarians all over the country have been setting for years. Do you think they get paid very much money? Schoolteachers do not get paid very much at all, and librarians do not even get credit for teaching any classes even though they probably work just as hard as some of the teachers. They continue to work hard in the library anyway though. Even though they draw that small salary and are so unappreciated that they often think of quitting. They do not quit though. They stay in the library because they love to help out the kids. They have some compassion unlike half of the people around America and are trying to mold the future of this great nation into smart, well-read people. That is why we need to do everything we can to help them. Even though they try really hard with all the work they do, and put in all the extra hours that they do they still cannot do it alone. They need all the people without kids to reach out and help the youth of the nation. People need to realize that everything does not revolve around their own private lives and just try to help out somebody else for once in their lives.
Even though it probably will not happen because people are too wrapped up in there own affairs to help kids learn to read we can still hope it will. We can still hope that people see the light and maybe donate some of their time and books to libraries. Maybe more people will start thinking about librarians and try to turn this country around. Unfortunately, until that happens crime rates will probably continue to rise in the big cities and all over the country in small or large communities kids will continue to drop out of school. Sadly, the main reason they will drop out is because they cannot read very well. If only their parents, or even somebody else besides their parents would have stopped for a minute and taken time out of their busy lives and taught them to read it would be different; we could all help kids to learn how to read and to love it. The question is whether we will or not.