“When you open a book, you open a new world”.
Books play vital role in the life. It is a most adaptable invention for conveying knowledge. They are the tools of learning and they act as the chain of communication from the older generation to young. Books are considered to be the object of art, which are created through the processes of writing, editing, printing and binding etc. Books have become inevitable to mankind. For most of us, it is part of our everyday lives. Books are one of the basic necessities of life and it is also one of life’s simple pleasures. A book is like a companion, be it a baby’s bedtime story, a toddler’s picture book, a child’s comic book, a teen’s young fiction or our very own academic books. Books are most often our best pastime, or rather a best friend, the only difference is that the latter will never part or walk away from you.
There is still too much of superstition and reverence mingled with the thought of books and literature, and study and studentship in the popular mind. Books are tools, of which here and there one is useful for a certain purpose to a certain person. The cook takes from the latest treatise the rules for a new salad; the chemist finds in his journal the last word on the detection of poisions;the man of affairs turns to the last market reports for guidance in his day’s transactions; and all have used books, have studied literature. The hammer and the poem, the hoe and the dictionary, the engine and the encyclopedia, the trowel and the treatise on philosophy –these are tools. One and all, they are expressions of the life of the race.
Books have been here for centuries and centuries, without them, today’s human knowledge of our past, ancestors, culture and civilization would have been impossible. Great are those scholars who made scripts of their ideas, inventions, discoveries and imagination. Have you imagined what would have happened if Isaac Newton did not document his study or gravity, or if Hippocrates had not written about his healing methods or if Galileo had not documented his theories on Space? A book imparts knowledge, and not only knowledge but wisdom, wisdom of all kinds…simple letters that matter, instructions to recipes, to theories to stories, to science and technology to engineering, to news to history, to media to entertainment…well the list goes on and on. They say, “The more you read, the more well-read you are”. This simply means that a person gains immense knowledge through books, the more you read, the more exposed you are, your attitude changes, your outlook changes and so does your creativity, imagination and lifestyle.
Approach books, then as you would sewing machine, a school or a factory.Literature after all, is simply all that’s printed. In print are found the sum of the experience and observation of the whole race. The well read person is an educated person. The taste for good reading once acquired is permanent. The influence of good books taken into the homes of the school children, from the library or from the school, does not stop with the children themselves. As a rule people read books which are above their own intellectual and moral standard, and hence are benefited by reading. The reading of books generally leads to the reading of better books but books are the mute entities, their application does not come automatically. It always requires some human agency that can induce the values of books among the students.
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
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