| Literacy is driven by the habit of reading and not | | | | that calculator rather than exert the brain to |
| just by writing well or learning how to write well. | | | | work out a small mathematical problem or |
| Reading is a habit that drives you on from one | | | | calculation. |
| book to another in search of knowledge. Reading | | | | Reading helps keep our brain thinking and |
| does not bore one if pursued endlessly. Right | | | | imagining. The words out there staring us in the |
| from grade one, it may be recollected, that at | | | | face as we read, help put the brain into the action |
| the end of the year we had to report on the | | | | surrounding the thoughts and ideas projected. So |
| number of books we had read in the course of | | | | doesn't this make you smarter? |
| the whole year. Somehow one book led to the | | | | Does Reading Help You Earn More? |
| reading of another and yet another. No boredom | | | | It's true that earlier people worked hard and |
| and no strain - just a thirst for more and more of | | | | earned well too without the education that is |
| those books. That is what reading is supposed to | | | | available today! But that is how life was earlier, |
| do to you, if you keep at it continuously. | | | | and they made a success of it in spite of little or |
| Even though writing contributes to our growth as | | | | no education at all. |
| a person, it is reading that makes us what we | | | | Some people succeed without a formal education |
| are. There's so much to learn from books. | | | | but, is it not better to make a position in life with |
| Reading improves Your Mental Aptitude | | | | education than to make it well in life without |
| Reading helps develop a stronger mental aptitude. | | | | education? Would you rather be the sales man in |
| How then will a novel help when it is not related | | | | a car store or be the owner of the car store? |
| to any of the subjects at school? In fact how can | | | | This is what you have to decide for yourself. |
| it increase mental aptitude? | | | | Reading helps you rise in life by creating dreams |
| Keeping the brain active helps it remain alive and | | | | for yourself and helping yourself progress by the |
| thinking. This is what reading does to you. | | | | day. |
| Scientists have stated that we use so little of our | | | | Reading helps you gain knowledge in subjects |
| brains - what with all the equipment around us - | | | | which you have not been introduced to at school. |
| that our brains are not as sharp, and slow to | | | | Learning never comes to an end and books help |
| function. At the drop of a hat, we reach out for | | | | you pursue this thirst for knowledge. |