Why Frederick Douglass Ability To Read So Important

Why is the ability to read so important? Reading is so crucial to our daily lives, considering there are words and phrases everywhere. Reading gives us the ability to learn constantly. Acquiring any form of education comes back to the capability to read, or learning how to read. When taking in information, you also have the strengths to apply the material that you just learned to what you already know. Having the ability to read can help so many people through hardships in their lives also. Reading has so many beauties in it, every person deserves the experience. Reading is imperative to do anything of value. Wherever you stand in the world, wherever your eyes drift, there are words that make sentences or expressions. You lose the opportunity to understand what your eyes are seeing if you can’t comprehend reading. The ability to read out a book is very rewarding in its own way. Reading from a novel allows a person to escape the real world from whatever troubles they deal with. Frederick Douglass once said, “If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure
Every year of school, kindergarten to senior year, is important to prepare us for the real world. We acquired the basic skills to read in kindergarten that we applied to every year that followed, including our senior year. According to Walter Kirn, “The senior year of public high school is less a climactic academic experience than an occasion for oafish goofing off, chronic truancy, random bullying, sloppy dancing in rented formal wear and interludes of moody, wan philosophizing about the looming bummer of adulthood”(Kirn,1). However, that is just a very biased stereotype of high school seniors. The senior year of high school is our final step towards graduation. Our reading skills improved greatly compared to our days in middle school. We still show improvement even as seniors when we