Reviving the reading culture

Why don't students like to read?

For so many reasons this question seems inexplicable.

Since time memorial it has been a common occurrence that in every class there must be one or two students who are termed the black sheep of the class because they never read their books, do their assignment, or answer questions in class, no matter the intensity.

Lately that number has skyrocketed from a maximum of two pupils, to about the entirety of every class. Students now find it very difficult to read.

Who is to blames? The teacher, the lecturer, or even their parents.

A whole lot of things have cumulated into killing the desire for students to want to read, from an easy and more accessible way in sorting out examination scores, to multiple distractions in the form of gadgets and technological advancements, to the ideology that he/she doesn't need to go to school to make it in life, to the fact that some don't even know how to read.

We need that reading culture back, readers are leaders.

How do we lead tomorrow when we haven't read how men and women of old did it?

We need knowledge of far and wide, away from our comfort zone, our specialty. There is no such thing as too much knowledge, it is never enough. In the near future you might be unhappy with yourself, for the knowledge you refused to pick up today when you had the opportunity to do so.

- Talius Dike

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