The ability to read and write is more important today than in the past. |
It is often said that reading and writing are a base to study and to<-삭제 work today as well as in the past. However I disagree with the statement that the ability to read and write has become more important today for two reasons. First, video can compensate a lack of ability to read and write. Second, speaking ability is more important. To begin with, visual effects help us offset poor literate skills. It is true that reading and writing ability is necessary to understand and to-삭제 express ourselves. However since many other equipments were developed to help us. For example, when I was a freshman in the university, I worried about my insufficient ability to read and understand subjects. At that time, my advisor recommended me to study with video tape which recorded a lecture of the major. Studying with the video-taped lecture, I could understand the subject better than the past when I always was confused with many concepts. Surprisingly, I got an ‘A’ grade-삭제 in my major subject and I gained confidence to study even harder. If I had not known other means to study than reading, I would not have been able to achieve high grade. In addition, as time goes by, the ability to speak is more important than reading and writing. In the past, there were more chances to express ourselves by writing so writing skill was more preferred naturally. However as communicating systems such as the internet, telephone and video conference are developed, a chance to express opinions by speaking frequent augments increasingly. For instance, in the research conducted by Times which is a famous magazine, there was a question that ‘which is the most important elements to express your opinion to your superior’. And the 65% of the answer is ‘speaking ability’ and only 20% of the answer is ‘writing ability’. The researcher said that this is because speaking is more efficient and fast than writing. This shows that as the society changes, writing ability become less important than the past. In brief, reading and writing ability is not as important as in the past because scarcity of reading and writing ability is able to be complemented by video and ability to speak is more essential than the ability to read and write. I strongly believe that as our society has become more advanced and fast-changing, other abilities will be more important than reading and writing ability. |