The article presents the author's views regarding the significance of reading. He argues that students who never learn to love to read has the potential to live a narrow life, where they never know what it is to be human. He notes that books tutor and expand ones emotions. He mentions the test trends on vocabulary he had studied at the Sage Foundation in New York City in 2008, in which the test reveals the higher marginal gains of adults against school children between 1948 and 2006.