Reading
When you were a child, your mom read you the books, and then you started to read by yourself choosing the most interesting books. After that you were reading the books to your kids and the process went in a circle. But eventually ability to read and skill of reading went apart. Why? They say that the functional illiteracy is a problem of XX century. The matter is that the world and society are developing, producing new information. The information includes the issues from the different spheres of a life and fields. A person is to cover as much knowledge as it is possible for a short time interval. Sometimes in this process quality of the reading loses to quantity of it.
Actually what is reading? The reading is one of the major kinds of speech activity, closely connected both with a pronunciation and with understanding of speech. Of course, it is an official notion that does not allow a person to understand why the reading is important. Some people consider it to be just useless leisure, a remedy to sleep, and a chance to kill the time when one does not know what to do. To deep into the issue, the reading contains more definite functions and opportunities. The reading is considered to be a natural ability. They think that this skill does not require any development as it is something that is given from the very nature. But it is a big mistake. Actually the reading is one of the artificial abilities of a person. It is possible to develop it and improve this ability like any other. For example, anyone does not doubt that it is possible to learn playing guitar or signing even if naturally one can not do it. It concerns the reading itself. Having possessed this possibility, a person is able to solve the hardest life, social, political, economical problems. So, the reading has enormous public value. Due to it one can occupy a corresponding social post or develop into desirable direction. For all the times the knowledge was a level that differed a person from other people. In accordance to the interests in reading people unite into the social groups and companies. Reading makes a person think. In this situation a person should distinguish the difference between an official way of thinking and his own point of view. In some countries it is forbidden to produce the alternative interpretations of the books.
Well, reading is that source that allows a person to learn the world even without seeing it, find out more ideas and more tendencies even without communication with other people and an opportunity to find a place in a society.