My father watches TV a lot, but I do not consider him as very intelligent person or something else even though he always enjoys educational programs. There are two reasons why I think that way: television merely tries to attrack people with entertaining information and it makes people very passive in learning.
To begin with, TV's original purport is to attrack as many people as possible. In this way, it usually releases interesting programs which might interest people a lot. People cannot get useful, practival information from those programs. Even more, those information contains a general idea which aims for all ages. To get productive information, people should choose their own books to learn about a specific field that they are interested in. Once, I watch some health program what my father enjoys the most, but I was very disappointed because of the information they give: very basic idea which I already knew.
On top of that, TV just makes people to receive what they watch in a very passive way. Doing so might be detrimental especially in this information society. Struggling with enormous amount of information, people might abandon to be critical and constructive. People,however, should acquire their own knowledge and adpot new information in their way by thoroughly thinking. From my experience, I can truly find a meaning of learning since I can have a glance of the author's life through reading.
To sum up, I think reading books are more advantageous because they give us the good quality of information and the ability to think activelyand critically. This actually criticises TV's endeavor to make people dull and passive and to give inferior information. Above all, I want to recommend my father reading books rather than wasting time on so-called "stupid box" |