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Parents usually want to educate their children properly by utilizing various methods. While some parents promote their kids to read non-fiction books or to spend the time in the most interesting tasks, some parents regulate the kids from playing games or reading fiction books. I firmly think that fiction is not effective tool as much as non-fiction, and the fundamental reasons behind my opinion are that we can predict the future by analyzing the facts and can understand others' emotion more effectively by reading psychological books.
To begin with, reading fiction books would not be helpful for children to improve their ability to analyze the facts and predict the future. It is obvious that people strive for gaining knowledge about promising careers because they want to survive in the harsh modern society. If someone can forecast the future roughly, it will be easy for him to earn a big amount of money and live a convenient life. By reading non-fiction books, we can know prospective industries or the countries which would be developed much faster than now, so it would be considerably helpful for kids. In contrast, a fiction book could not give helpful information about careers because it usually focuses on main characters' modification of feeling or deals with infeasible topics such as magic. As for me, when I was 9-year-old kid, I read a book about rising China, and I started learning Chinese. Fortunately, as the book said, China has become one of the strongest nations in the world, and I readily could get the job in Samsung as an interpreter. On top of that, reading non-fiction could be more effective tool to educate emotion. The world consists of not only mere facts but also humans' irrational behaviors due to their feelings. Thus, obtaining facts is not enough to understand our world, so it is easy to think that fiction is necessary to give lessons to children about the relationship between people and emotion. However, reading a psychological book would be more helpful for them to understand others' behavior because it contains definite cause and tendency. I once read a book named 'introductory psychology', and I learnt Pygmalion effect. By using this information, I could understand why my friend got A from 'Microeconomics' which was lectured by a cheerful professor and got C- from 'Money and Finance' which was lectured by a indifferent professor. If I had decided to read fiction, I could not have understand others as much as now.
To sum up, reading fiction would lead to missing out on opportunities to get the ability to predict the future and to understand other people's feeling. In this regard, without any hesitation, I strongly agree with the statement.
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