Books are still the best

Books have become a dying media, and have been for many a year. Many students find reading a book in class an absolute bore and thus don’t read on their own time. But with the wake of phone bans, should students blow the dust off of their books and take up literature once again? 

Ever since books have begun to dwindle into obscurity, literacy levels have declined to the point that the National Literary Institute found that 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level. This loss of literacy affects more than just reading, though, but also media literacy as a whole with movies, shows, music and more. 

Books can help fuel your mind— it is a fact that it gives you better critical thinking skills, better vocabulary, better memory and helps your mind in many ways. It's most important factor now though, is the fact that it improves attention spans, which everyone needs improvement on nowadays.

Even from a purely content standpoint, books can hold way more than a movie could ever hold. While a movie can have a very poignant metaphor or a well thought out theme, books will be able to surpass what they do every time. Books are made to have meanings, morals, themes, messages and such while TV shows and movies nowadays are seemingly only being made for a quick cash grab with no heart to its content. 

There is a reason that books have been studied and analyzed over hundreds of years, it's purely for the fact that there is just more there. While movies and television have their place, books are one of the greatest things humanity has ever come up with and have been for millennia. Whether you think reading’s for dorks, or if you aspire to read more after this, remember the amount of knowledge and stories that awaits on the other side of that cover.