The Role of Good Books in the Educational Development of the Child

Abstract

Good books are essential in the life and development of the child. They ate stimulus to his intelligence and imagination, an incentive to independent thinking and source of information and enjoyment. The paper discusses the quintessentials of a good book as well as the dearth of same for our schools and school libraries and recommends among others that the three tiers of government should commit themselves to building and equipping school libraries with quality books to complement and back up teaching and learning. Furthermore, the federal Government should subsidize the cost of publishing to make the cost of books cheap and affordable. Government should also make the importation of educational materials duty free to encourage publishing. Parents on their own should take the lead in encouraging and inspiring their children to imbibe the culture of reading good books.