The Joy of Reading

The Joy of Reading is one of the cheapest, most important, and most beneficial pleasures in life. It contributes to the development of the individual and therefore to the development of the family and society. Depriving the individual of this joy is a great fault that the family and the school commit together, because they are concerned with instilling the habit of reading in a child from his very first years.

Unfortunately, the illiterate are not the only ones deprived of this pleasure, because many learners who come to and leave university have read in their lives only textbooks in primary and secondary schools, and their books of specialization at the university often concise by the publications of their professors. As a result, one of them becomes a stubborn person who understands nothing outside of his area of ​​competence and is unable to cope with management problems and take responsibility for the family and overcome the obstacles of life.

Reading literature is a blessing, a pleasure and a recreation of the soul. Reading poetry softens feelings, nourishes the imagination, refines the soul and awakens the sense of natural and artistic beauty. Reading good novels and biographies of great men widens the horizon of the reader, provides him with different human experiences in time and space and makes him more able to understand himself and others so that he becomes more tolerant and less fanatic. He will also be able to adapt to his community, cope with the difficulties of life and overcome his obstacles.

    Therefore, family and school must cooperate to transfer this joy to the child in the first years of primary school, by offering children beautiful, attractive and age-appropriate comic books. They nourish their imagination, soften their feelings, sharpen their spirit, develop their tastes and refine their consciences. These comic books fascinate them and instil in them reading as a fruitful hobby that takes root in their minds and becomes a good lasting habit.

Abdellah Khammar