Reading

Professor Michael Skube is worried that today‘s generation of college kids are not fully grasping, or even using, the English language to its full potential. In fact, the rapidly growing trend is far from this. As with so many things modern, language has been simplified to a bare minimum. A great number of college kids speak and read on a level that should be years below their level. Why go the extra mile to learn more when one can survive off what they have? And it isn’t so much the young adults of the this generation’s fault, it spawns from society. It is not a necessity, or even useful, in a college kid’s social life to spend free time reading or even to know of authors. It’s an epidemic Why? Because its not “cool” to read. And while aggressive reading may be a useful skill to any reader, the keyword is reader. I am not sure how much use this skill would be to someone that doesn’t even believe in reading. The biggest step we as a nation would need to take is to re-enforce a learning environment in which people want to read. Of course, this may all boil down to long lost dreams, but the ideal way to handle such a problem would be to take social power from the pop culture social icons, and give it to the scholars and brilliant minds of the world.
I am not saying that reading is a dead skill, because I know that a small percentage of the population will still grab a book anytime they get the chance, but I think that for such things as “aggressive reading” to be of any use to the students in the classroom, they have to actually want to read.