This is, an “attempt” (and I’m sure it won’t succeed!) by the government, to change the habits of reading the books of the citizens here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Based Off of the Surveys of “Finding the Reading Abilities in Taiwan”, in the past year, over sixty-percent of the public never went into a library. The scholars believed, that the key reasons lie in that there aren’t enough locations of the libraries, they’d recommended, that the libraries at the schools can be opened up to the community, and set up the professionals to help advocate reading to the general public, so the citizens can find the libraries, more accessible to them in their daily lives.
The head of the Department of Education, Pan responded yesterday, that the Department of Education plans to give more incentives to teachers who teaches students to read, for the communities that set up the shared reading stations, and integrate the local libraries, to set up a wider forum of borrowing the books, to the point that the citizens will be able to check out and return the books, in the super convenience shops at their conveniences, so the books in the libraries gets spread out throughout the island.
“The elementary and middle school years are the most vital years, to acquire a love for reading”, Pan, as he acted as the head of the national education in the Department of Education, he’d, pushed forth the “Reading Instructors, the Teachers who Help Students to Find Their Loves for Reading in the Elementary & Middle School Years”. This post is assigned to certified school teachers, and the instructors needed to get certified in the areas of library sciences, and those teachers who act as reading teachers can get ten hours of academic courses taken off their loads.
Pan pointed out, that last year, the Department of Education gave $60 million N.T.s in assistance to certify 400 middle and elementary school reading instructors. Toward the specific needs of reading education, the Department of Education will do an inventory on the resources, asking if any teacher will be willing to get onboard the programs, hoping, to enlarge this program to a grander scale to the point that every elementary and middle school has, at least ONE reading instructor.
As for the school libraries being opened up to the local communities, Pan pointed out, there are currently, counties and cities that put up the funding, to encourage the communities to set up libraries with the local school already, to open the libraries for the local residents, as well as the students to utilize. The Department of Education’s “Community Reading Stations” from the Forward Education Programs already helped 121 high schools, 624 elementary and middle schools, to set up the hardware of the school libraries, to open the libraries to the locals in the communities. In the futures, other than planning to give more funding to more schools to set up the shared reading stations, the program is also looking to set up the reading-together programs with the local communities, so the citizens can start this trend of, getting into reading again.
And, toward the accessibility of the convenience of borrowing books, Pan stated, that the resources integration program will automate the systems of libraries, so the books can be borrowed and returned at the super convenience shops, to set up this sharing program of reading resources.
Uh, yeah, this program IS ideal, but it’s, totally UNREAL, think about it, if you don’t read books now, what would drive you to want to read books? Nothing, and, it does NOT matter how convenient it will be, for everybody to check out books, and to return them, if you’re not a reader, then, you won’t keep up with the habits of reading, and, NO amount of incentive the government can offer, is going to change that, the love of reading should BE started, way back in the early childhood years, and if you hadn’t acquired it yet when you were just babies, then, chances are, you won’t pick up a book to read, for F-U-N!!!
Life, the Obstacle Course 