In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books. -GRE Issue 22

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In the age of television, reading books is not as important as it once was. People can learn as much by watching television as they can by reading books. -GRE Issue 22

The speaker contends that people learn just as much from watching television as by reading books, and therefore that reading books is not as important for learning as it once was. I strongly disagree. I concede that in a few respects television, including video, can be a more efficient and effective means of learning. In most respects, however, these newer media serve as poor substitutes for books when it comes to learning.

Admittedly, television holds certain advantages over books for imparting certain types of knowledge. For the purpose of documenting and conveying temporal, spatial ev...

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