it is material to underscore the role that a good book can play in the training and the development of an individual. I have tried to enumerate some of the reasons, there may be more, behind an intelligent and purposeful reading :
1) Reading drives away our ignorance to make room for knowledge.
2) Reading helps us build up a fuller personality.
3) Reading makes us a complete citizen.
4) Reading helps us to think and feel more fully.
5) Reading helps us to visit many places and meet celebrities at second hand.
6) Reading helps to build up our vocabulary for comprehension and expression.
7) Reading is a stepping stone to writing. Writing means reading. Qui dit écriture, dit lecture. We must read to write.
8) Reading provides us with a skeleton key with which we can open many doors.
9) Reading is sine qua non to succeed at school. It is an integral part of the learning process. A reading child is an asset in class while an unreading one is a liability.
10) Reading spares us from becoming a pawn on the chessboard of witty and intelligent persons. It is not easy to fool a man of wide reading.
11) Reading broadens our minds with the pleasures of great literature. It opens new windows on the world.
12) Reading helps us outgrow our opinions and ideas, and learn other people's points of view.
13) Reading brings us far into the past, keeps us abreast with the present and prepares us for the future.
14) Reading is the basis of a child's education and the enhancement of man.
15) Reading helps to relieve the tedium of everyday life and kill the time.
