What is the best piece of educational advice that you have ever received? How did it help you? by William

What is the best piece of educational advice that you have ever received? How did it help you? by William - May 2014 Scholarship Essay

The best educational advice I ever received was to read everyday. That's it. The reason why is because it doesn't ruin my brain like TV and video games do, the other reason why is because I learn bigger and interesting words. Most people question me because they never see me read, but that is because I read on my own time, not whenever or where ever. If I read when there are people around I will get easily distracted and will not be able to concentrate, also they will hinder my reading and imagination.

Now that I buy my own books I barely have time to read them, because of television shows that I am intrigued by and video games that I love playing, especially on my phone, these things take up too much of my time and waste my mind on meaningless things. Although it may benefit me in solving challenging puzzles or show me interesting things to do in real life, the events are already their to take up my entire mind, also they get too addicting. When I read, my mind and imagination follow a journey and involve me in the stories I read, the way the settings are described are places that I can fantasize, I make people I know in real life the characters in each book, including myself. Yeah video games give you characters to name or let you create your own character but to a limited extent. In the novel I am currently reading, my closest friends, people I don't like, my hero and myself are involved in tragedy. I won't reveal the name but the book is entertaining.

While watching movies, documentaries or shows I hear the most interesting choices of words that immediately catch my attention, unfortunately the speaker of the word does not ingeminate that mature-diction. When I read books, it's a different situation, I can reread the word as much as I want and search up the meaning, then figure out ways to use it and finally surprise and puzzle people with my expanding vocabulary and choices of my wording. I have always been obsessed with bigger words and mature diction, books give me the ability to learn more words and challenge the most intellectual of humans and belittle them with my speech and abstruse vocabulary.

I only got into reading more often because I started out with mangas, the Japanese books, and when I decided to read american novels there were minimal amounts that caught my interests. So I took this advice of education because it helps me in my choices of words, it expands my imagination and creates more roads of opportunities to speak with higher class people, such as speaking with someone for job interviews, or if I have abruptly been chosen to do a speech for an event.