2007-03-13 21:20:08 · 9 answers · asked by fifaworldcup 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Reading is perhaps better in listening and watching things because when you are reading, you can jump back and forth to bits you didn't understand the first time. You can't really do this when someone is explaining something orally or showing you something. This may however become slightly less of a problem now with computers and the internet - you can find eBooks, audio files, video files and interactive programs on the web to help you learn things, and then using your computer, you can repeat any bit you want to clarify or to remind yourself about.
2007-03-13 21:30:19 · answer #1 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading is A KEY to knowledge. One cannot rule out personal experience, accident, spirituality, video games, television, food...well, everything.
The common thread, however, is that from wherever you obtain knowledge, the source has to challenge YOU. If you read, for example, the same books over and over, you likely aren't learning anything new. The key to knowledge, then, is not to settle on a single source as the end-all, be-all of all knowledge.
One reason books are often cited as the key to knowledge is because the book is the main medium of human history. Without books, every generation would have to re-invent the wheel and re-think Euclidean geometry. We would have never moved far from the cave had it not been for writing and books.
2007-03-14 06:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by God_Lives_Underwater 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, reading is the key to knowledge because it provides you with a store of solid information. Reading can become the key to knowledge provided the person is alert in the choice of books, reads on a regular basis and makes efforts to explore, connect, analyze the matter that is read and is ready to rework with the information. Creativity coupled with prolific reading can make a person very knowledgeable.
2007-03-14 04:29:41 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Tere - educator & professor 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reading is a way to formulate knowledge. Wisdom is the understanding of what you do with the knowledge.
2007-03-14 11:42:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Reading can only provide second-hand knowledge. It's great but some knowledge can only be had through experience.
2007-03-14 06:01:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The more you know about the past and the mistakes made you can learn from to create a better world for all. If you can't read the recipe you cant expect Lasagna for dinner.
2007-03-14 04:30:25 · answer #6 · answered by twiggysrevenge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is. It opens you up to a lot of ideas, and you can read them in the author's own words.
Reading is the threshold of study.
2007-03-14 04:27:57 · answer #7 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading sure is one.
Listening to good sources, seeing and experiencing are other.
2007-03-14 04:23:46 · answer #8 · answered by Maranello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is because people who don't read don't learn.
2007-03-14 08:58:52 · answer #9 · answered by Can music save your mortal soul? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋