Reading makes people judicious. A judicious man knows how to treat others. A man can never be sophisticated and dynamic without reading books. Books teach readers about moral values.
Habit of reading makes us conscientious. A conscientious man always speaks with conscious superiority. He is free from all superstitions. He tries his best to enlighten his soul by reading. It is very difficult to be a perfect man. Only reading leads us to reach towards our destiny. According to Earnest Hemingway, ‘Books are the most trustworthy things in this word and there is no friend as loyal as a book.’ Books hold human beings’ feeling of happiness and sorrow, joy and sadness. Frances Bacon says in his essay “Of studies” that “Histories make men wise, poets, witty, the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” The view of Bacon is - if a man would like to be wit and never lose his wits in the emergency period, let him wander in the mathematics. If his wits are not able to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen and study the cases of lawyers so that he cannot beat over matters.
Authentic thoughts, ideology, philosophy and fresh outlook exist in the pages of good books. Terms such as existentialism, individualism, idealism, romanticism etc. are clearly got lie down inactively in the books. We will not only drink it but also have to digest so that humanity arises. The novel “Chader Amabashsha” by Syed Waliullah will be a high example of existentialism. Besides, we can know the ancient civilization such as Greek civilization and their cultures, believes, religions and even their conditions of life by reading Home’s Iliad. By taking the knowledge of this great classical epic, only sophisticated readers can realize the Greek-Latin culture, their rituals, concept of heroism, practices of war and even their concept of Gods and Goddesses and will understand and think about the Troy city and the great Trojan-war.
A beautiful and flawless life can be made by undergoing the studies of genuine books. The feelings of love with each other are created by reading books. Books paved the way for being intellectuals and the intellectuals can create a beautiful nation by composing great books. Books teach us how to sacrifice and how to make themselves like the grandeur of Himalayas. This grandeur protects our family as well as our society from polluted. If the society is not polluted, the better things must come and the future must be good for all. In a word, the features of good books cannot be described. In our society, it is noticed that people prefer isolated life to democratic life. An isolated life is like concrete. A concrete life never brings a sober judgment for a better nation. The society in where there is no habit of reading will cry like a dumb forest. The heart of human beings cannot be flourished and broadened. Francis Bacon says that “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.” Reading books is essential to know the world. Books are the silence witness whose results are not seen within a short time. For this, we have to wait ages after ages.
Books help to bridge the best literature and civilization. Literature plays a crucial role to change the crude behavior of a person and wakes a reader up. And so he holds and shows a humble respect to all. Thus, written knowledge existing in books spreads over to the society and moral values are noticed everywhere. The youth realizes the good and the bad. Oscar Wilde says that “In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Now-a-days books are written by the public and read by nobody.” Now, it is so much difficult to detect right books. Right books can ensure values on the other hand evil books ruin our values of our youth.
We have no alternative way to read books. All developed nations considered books as a great factor for learning. If any nations fall in danger, we should bear in mind that the nations could not take books properly. It is clear that the nations have failed to spread the habit of reading books to all.
When a nation from primary to mass people gives special importance the books it might be clear that there will cause a severe change in the community. The livelihood of common people must be noticeable because of changing community and a corruption-free society will be visible. Different types of corruption are rampant in our society. Major example of corruption bribery, misappropriation of public resources, kickback and commissions, nepotism, favoritism, gift giving, cheating, fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement, intellectual corruption and corruption of the soul. At present, these are the burning issues of major nations. To remove these problems, we have to not only educated but also achieved the teaching of education. In order to know the teaching of education, habit of reading books have to be ensured; it may be by one’s own will or by Government’s imitativeness.
Man is the worshiper of beauty. This sentence clearly mentions that beauty exists in human. But the beauty may be polluted by the evils. If we try our best to remove the evils and rouse the beauty, the whole world will be peaceful and full of happiness. But what way is- to do away with the evils. The best way is- to make the humans knowledgeable. The first condition of being knowledgeable is- to spread the books and to make the habit of reading from the masses to higher educated society. This process can help to create beauty. When we will find the beauty in the human face, in the baby’s smile, in the lover’s glance and in the philosopher’s view, we will realize that the beauty has gladdened human’s heart and at its touch spirit has thrilled. That means- reading is successful.
Sukanto Kumar Deb Nath is a columnist and an M. Phi Fellow, Dept. of Business Administration, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.
