Not very often do you see a teacher put down her book reluctantly and say, "Okay class, I've got to stop reading. We've got to talk about math or something." (Jay, M. Ellen). So why is that? If the teachers aren't into reading, why should their students listen to them when being told to read more? If there were more enthusiasm for reading from all angles, then people wouldn't see reading as such a dreadful and boring task.
             First let's examine why reading is seen this way, then we'll discuss the many good things about reading. These days, there is a lot of required reading among students and also among employees in their workplaces. Everyone gets busy, but when they do have free time, instead of picking up a book, they just pick up the remote control and become one with their television set.
             Reading is a way of life at any school. The very first day the kids receive books of all sizes and just enough of them to break their backs. That doesn't exactly send the students running for the library to go grab some more. Within those books, generously given to them by their teachers, is a plethora of information that will be digested and exhausted by the end of the year. During the course of that year, students are asked to read more and more by their teachers. The only catch is that this extra reading can't be from classroom books; instead they should do other reading on their own.
             Now, to several students, this is not a problem. They have separated the big boring books from the other more "fun" and relaxing books that whisk them off to other worlds. However, the students who have not quite caught on to this secret moan and groan about it and never pick up these other books.
             Aside from students and their big books, there is another form of dreaded reading. This reading can be called "professional reading". It's the kind people do at work. This reading incl...