The Idea of an Essay, Volume 3

124 The Idea of an Essay: Volume 3 Because the students dislike reading and assume they are going to not like it, their lives really suffer. Because students are uninterested in their readings, they are much less likely to read on their own, therefore hindering their writing abilities, vocabulary, and sentence structure. If left unchecked, these consequences will eventually limit their view of the world and their personal experience. A student’s solidifying aversion to reading has serious consequences. It can not only affect their further studies as mentioned above which has ramifications of academic success and extrapolated personal ability to succeed but it also hinders them from being taken seriously as adults. One’s ability to read and write often impacts how others perceive them. Although physical interaction plays a significant role, the ability or desire to read affects one’s ability to learn beyond his graduation from an educational institution. One who loves to read and continues to read beyond graduation can then communicate in an ever changing world with current knowledge about events or ideas. They can then understand others’ ideas and therefore formulate their own idea in response. One who hates to read and avoids reading after graduation remains trapped in the knowledge of an ever-fading past. This permeates to the social and public atmosphere as well as the business or work atmosphere. As an advancing society, companies are constantly creating new inventions, instrumentation, methods. The incipient love or aversion to reading all begins in the transition period of middle school. Teachers must take action for the student to successfully complete this critical transition; if they do not, the teacher not only is responsible for their student not reaching maximum potential, but the teacher also risks corrective action from their administration. Most people who enter a career of teaching do so because they enjoy helping students grow. They enjoy seeing students understand new concepts and discover their world more fully. If students emerge from their class hating reading, then the teacher has hindered the student’s ability to succeed in the future, whether academically or not. This primarily motivates teachers. Granted, some teach because it will pay the bills or because they only have to work nine months a year and are not primarily motivated by students’ success. Ironically, these teachers must take the most action in solving this problem because they have the same standards to meet but have