readers have developed imaginations and gained better language skills than watchers TV

ĐỀ 6/1/2012

It has been that people who read for pleasure have developed imaginations and gained better language skills than people who prefer watching TV. Do you agree or disagree?

Reading

Pros

- Patience

- Knowledge deepened and widened

- Critical thinking

- Exercise brain, a kind of exercise

Watching television

Pros

- Receive quick news

- Good at illustration through images

Cons

- Obesity

People take different hobbies and learn greatly from them. Some prefer watching television to reading books for its provision of quick news and images while others love reading where they can exercise their intellectual thinking. In my view, I strongly agree with the latter idea for the following reasons.

First, it is believed that by watching television, people can access news faster. For instance, no sooner has an earthquake happened than people can realize its degree of damage through instant images on television with people crying, houses collapse and victims buried. Nevertheless, being bombarded with constant images on television, people feel tired and hardly distinguish between rights or wrongs. Sometimes politically speaking, because of knowing that images can manipulate others, several people use television as a way to control the mind of others and mislead them greatly. Watchers, on the other hand, could avoid such negative influence if they are into the habit of reading at the same time. By reading, they have their own space to be critical of what they see with deeper analysis. Without images, they are supposed to exercise their brain to develop their own approach to news, and thinking will be diverse instead of being influenced. That is why surveys have shown that those people who often read are more active in thinking and have original ideas.

Secondly, television watching is a recreational hobby. By dint of watching game shows and movies, children stay away from stress at school and feel inspired as well. Yet, so obsessed with violent images on television are some children that they can imitate such behavior and even worse kill others. One little kid in America recently pointed his gun at a series of people after watching a heroic violent movie. In addition, can children truly feel relaxed when they gain weight by being a couch potato? Because of sticking their eyes to big screen, they see their eyes grow strenuous and bodies inactive. Some children, as a result of being isolated from the real world too much and burying themselves in the illusionary images on television, grow uncommunicative. However, as for those who often read, their linguistic ability is continuously enhanced and knowledge is widened in all fields. Most of successful people like Bill Gates and Obama are avid readers in their early childhood and claim that their management skill is accumulated through thousands of pages of books.