"An image worth a thousand words" is a well-known proverb that almost everybody heard. In our time, some state that photographs and films are increasingly competing with books, magazines and other forms of written materials and are becoming the dominant form of passing on information. Nevertheless, I believe that although some merits are associated with these newer forms of education and with the advent of social media they are indeed more widespread than before, they are not going to replace texts completely. In this essay, I will try to reason my perspective on the matter and try to draw a conclusion based on it.