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| Students choose to buy books at the Phu Yen Provincial Book Fair in 2024. Photo: VIET AN |
It must be said that books are a great invention, a wonderful product, an effective means of transmitting ideas, feelings, meanings, and experiences from one generation to another. For a long time, famous philosophers, politicians, writers, and poets have concluded the great value of reading. Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen said, “The wiser a person is, the more he reads, and the wisest people are those who read the most.” Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle once said, “Everything that man has done, thought, or become is miraculously preserved on the pages of books.” Or Lenin also affirmed, “Without books, there is no knowledge”…
Everyone knows that reading plays a very important role, is the universal key for each of us to have a solid foundation, to enrich our knowledge and reach the sea of knowledge. Reading culture, from a certain perspective, is our attitude and behavior towards the knowledge contained in books. However, it seems that we are indifferent to books or if we do, we do so reluctantly. According to statistics, on average, each Vietnamese person reads 4 books per year (including textbooks). A number that "tells" about the current reading situation of Vietnamese people.
The establishment of Vietnam Book Day is a necessary push to encourage and develop the reading movement in the community, raising people's awareness of the value and great significance of reading. From there, they can learn, improve their knowledge and skills, develop their thinking as well as train their morality and personality.
Nowadays, mainly students, teachers, and officials seek books to serve their studies and professional work. A few are truly passionate about spending money to buy books to collect, explore, and develop knowledge and skills. Some seek books for entertainment, such as reading comics and famous literary books. Others follow the trend, seeing others reading and buying them too, but they get bored quickly. Urban people have easy access to books, while people in remote mountainous areas sometimes find books a luxury.
Nowadays, reading for each person, especially young people, is seriously affected by the diversity of multimedia. Others are affected by busy life, with many problems to worry about. Students in school are overloaded with textbooks, so they are no longer interested in skill or reference books.
Reading is a slow process for us to ponder and think about each word that the author has conveyed. Through reading, people will accumulate knowledge, behavior, culture, history, etc. To form and spread the reading culture in general, and reading in particular, each person needs to create a habit of reading, reading with skills, selectively, avoiding rambling, unfocused, leading to boredom. Forming a habit of reading starts from each household, parents set an example for their children, schools, teachers propagate, popularize, introduce books, the importance of books to students, and arouse a passion for reading. At the same time, the government needs to integrate reading culture activities into extracurricular activities, orientation, and encouragement.
The establishment of Vietnam Book Day is a necessary push to encourage and develop the reading movement in the community, raising people's awareness of the value and great significance of reading. From there, they can learn, improve their knowledge and skills, develop their thinking as well as train their morality and personality.
Source: https://baophuyen.vn/van-nghe/202504/suy-ngam-ve-van-hoa-doc-hien-nay-8491ab8/
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