Teachers Sound the Alarm Over Youth's Loss of Reading Skills 0 11

Students are experiencing serious difficulties in meeting previous requirements: many struggle with long texts, and some have lost the ability to understand even individual sentences. Pepperdine University professor Jessica Huten Wilson notes that students often fail to comprehend the text written on the page.

Experts attribute the problem in part to the school education system, where the emphasis is on scanning texts for information rather than on thoughtful reading. However, the main reason lies in psychological factors: a lack of confidence and mental endurance. There is a pattern that the shorter the reading list, the more willingly students engage with it.

Reading develops empathy, allowing one to see the world through the eyes of others, and its deficiency, on the contrary, contributes to loneliness and anxiety. Notably, reading remains a key habit among wealthy individuals. This was confirmed by a JPMorgan survey of more than 100 billionaires.