Now the main activities of Muslim families at home are watching TV, playing gadgets, not reading as instructed by God. Though we have been introduced with the first revelation down since childhood. All as knowledge. How can a child diligently read if his parents do not exemplify it.
Reading skills are the most important component of language. The higher the student's skill in reading, the greater his ability to progress to other areas. Language is the most important thinking skills. Without mastering the language, we will have difficulty developing other thinking skill. That is, if we oversize in the language then it would be oversized in other fields.
How our education today has not provided a large portion of efforts to build literacy in students' reading. Even when we fuss about the efforts Dikti Dikdikbud Dikti to force the students to write scientific papers as a requirement to graduate undergraduate. There is no discussion of the importance of reading as a basis for writing. What's more about writing a scientific paper. It is as if we can do a magical leap of writing scientific papers without going through the effort to build a solid literacy reading.
A baby will not be able to run without going through the stages of crawling, standing, walking two steps and then falling, and so on.
Students will not be possible to write scientific papers without practicing writing other works before. And the student will never be able to write any work well if he never or seldom reads. The greatest source of knowledge is on reading.
Reference: The Mystery Book Behind The Commandment of Reading 14 Past Ages by Satria Dharma.