Reading is something I treasure. I love to read stories of great adventures or humorous characters. Unfortunately, thanks to years of studying school text books, three of which centred around accounting, I have come to loath the very same thing I love. What I would do as a relaxing past time becomes a chore when you’re reading about the accounting of revenue for thirty pages.
It brings up an important question. Why is reading text books so boring? Don’t point fingers at those poor accounting fools because they aren’t the only ones to blame. It appears to be a trend amongst text book writers to attempt everything in their power to put you to sleep within the first few lines. Do they think that by dragging everything out and saying it in the most pompous way they’ll make us all more intelligent?
Think about this. When you watch law or medical programs on TV, you begin to pick up on the lingo, and even learn some of the subject matter. The same happens when reading Sci-Fi books. All of this learning is happening under the guise of entertainment. What if, just what if, we could learn like this for everything? It doesn’t mean we would never have to put any effort in, but simply unmask the interesting things that we’re learning and make us want to learn them. Who knows what we could accomplish.
Here’s a brilliant YouTube video from a fellow book lover:
I first came across the Spud series by accident. A few of my friends at school were excitedly talking about skipping a lesson and going with the librarian to a nearby shopping centre to see John van de Ruit. I had no idea who that was but when offered the opportunity to miss class I wasn’t going to say no.
