WHERE WE ARE TODAY: BOOKS
You don't have to be a genius to create something great that will revolutionize the future of the world. The creation of the Gutenberg Metal Printing Press was something that interested me a lot, the lecture I mean, because I didn't really know the history of how that started and I never thought of how our world would be today if it weren't for his creation.
That being said he wasn't the first but I think he was more well known since he wasn't this super genius who wanted to conquer the world. He was just this average man who wanted to make the lives of other people easier, who wanted a world where everyone could read in the language that the majority of the society spoke and that's pretty admirable.
If it weren't for his creation of the metal printing press there wouldn't be this wide spread of literacy. We as a nation today are so obsessed with technology and the wonders of it that I don't know any different. We would definitely not be as evolved as we are today and there wouldn't be this hustle and bustle of how to advance ourselves even more, and that includes everything.
While we were learning about books and how they would effect our world if we were to not have the evolvement of the printing press and literacy rates came up in the lecture and I decided that on my own time that I would look up the literacy rates of America. It didn't come to my surprise that America did not have the highest literacy rate and that was extremely disappointing knowing that we are so called a nation of opportunity and education. Why are we not making more of an effort to help these citizens of America to read, to learn the value of knowing what is going on around us. If anything, it is an embarrassment to what we stand for as a nation.
Books will never perish, they will never become something that wasn't know in the future generations. Knowledge is power and the power to read and write, to create something that is unexplainably and utterly yours is something magical, something so special that one can ever censor you from. The words that you write on a piece of paper or the words that you speak will are always remembered. So books, literacy, and evolvement of words is important. More important than America is making it seem
While we were learning about books and how they would effect our world if we were to not have the evolvement of the printing press and literacy rates came up in the lecture and I decided that on my own time that I would look up the literacy rates of America. It didn't come to my surprise that America did not have the highest literacy rate and that was extremely disappointing knowing that we are so called a nation of opportunity and education. Why are we not making more of an effort to help these citizens of America to read, to learn the value of knowing what is going on around us. If anything, it is an embarrassment to what we stand for as a nation.
Books will never perish, they will never become something that wasn't know in the future generations. Knowledge is power and the power to read and write, to create something that is unexplainably and utterly yours is something magical, something so special that one can ever censor you from. The words that you write on a piece of paper or the words that you speak will are always remembered. So books, literacy, and evolvement of words is important. More important than America is making it seem
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