Children nowadays spend a great deal of time watching television. However, television cannot replace the book as a learning tool, which is why children are less well‐educated today. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Children used to read a lot, but the trend has changed, nowadays they are more fascinated with television. As we know Reading is a great tool to learn a language or gain

knowledge but

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knowledge, but

its less preferred in the modern world where television is prevalent and kids can see and feel the emotions which are being pictured.

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essay will argue that Children are well-educated because they are watching television. Television uses visuals to explain concepts in easy way specially in

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of cartoons which are very easy to understand by kids. Lets take an example of Discovery channel which shows about science behind everything like space, atoms, how things work etc.

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a detailed manner. It is very hard to gain the same amount of knowledge by reading a single book or articles.

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pictures or videos are more effective to create understanding. Reading requires a lot of time, patience and focus which are very hard to expect from young kids.

For instance

, Watching a short news bulletin can provide as much information as reading a whole newspaper.

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the language use of newspaper is harder to understand than viewing the same thing on TV.

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Television could be a faster way to acquire current information about what's going on in the world. From above point we can conclude that kids can get knowledge by watching TV if they want to,

instead

of just reading books. Television and reading are not mutually exclusive ways to be well-educated. All in all, it is very important to include TV as part of an education program.