On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 21:26, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > On our way out, my daughter, an avid reader herself, remarked that if > we can get more people to read, and to enjoy reading, then the Pinoy might > still amount to something. The trouble with us is that we do not read. > We enjoy watching soap operas on TV, or pirated DVDs, but we do not > read. >
the 'readers' is a dying race. i think the reading campaign in the US is something that our government should take as a model for promoting the importance of reading in today's day and age. > How many of us, before posting a trivial question on this list, bother > to check out and read the FAQs and HOWTOs first? It is so much easier > to just post it here, where everyone is so generous with his talent, > so why bother to read? > i bother... and im sure others do too. but the fact still remains that yes, we tend to take the easy way out and ask the question and wait for a reply than find out for ourselves. i think i would like to blame these in the spoon feeding style of elementary schools. i myself came from an elementary school that used spoon feeding as a method of teaching, and when everything you needed to know would be taught to you, and any question you might have will and must be answered by the teacher. this didn't help me at all when i went into high school and had to learn how to research for myself the answers to the questions asked by the teachers as well as the questions i formulated on my own. this is when i learned that reading is inevitable and that books are treasures. of course, we all read otherwise we can't read the email. =) (unless of course you would have to listen to it being read for you... ;)) > Let us make of ourselves a better nation. Let us read! > i agree. =) -- -=[mikhail]=- aka Dean Michael C. Berris mobile +63 917 8901959 work +63 49 5680024 http://free.net.ph/Members/mikhailberis _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
