It was called the Commission on Reading , funded under the U.S. Department of Education , and consisted of nationally recognized experts in how children develop, how they learn language, and how they learn to read. Since nearly everything in the curriculum of school rested upon reading, the consensus was that reading was at the heart of either the problem or the solution. Let's look at how these create lifetime readers. Each feeds off the other.
Human beings are pleasure-centered.
Human beings voluntarily will do over and over only that which brings them pleasure. If we hate something, we don't eat it or drink it. People who hate mowing the lawn, look for excuses to avoid the mowing. But if we like something, we go to great lengths to do it, eat it, or drink it. When our senses send electrical messages to either of these centers, we respond positively or negatively.