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's Room thousand pages

Many times I read the opinions of "experts in education, calling for measures to create reading habits in children. And every time I find him less weight to their arguments.

My dad was a kiosk in the Gran Via My mother was hospitalized after giving birth to my brother, so that I accompanied my dad. A kiosk of 1.5 x 1.5 mts. was almost a prison for a child of 4 years, so I put playing with cigarette packs or whatever came to hand. Until one day my dad, perhaps exasperated by my constant questions, I became a comic. My inexhaustible curiosity found an insurmountable obstacle, could not read. And my dad was too busy on the kiosk, to read me. And so began the long wait, I came to kindergarten with the mind set at 1 ° Basic, because I was told at that level you learned to read. That was my mission, my leit motiv, my obsession. Arriving-1 Basic learned to read in record time. And by the power and magic of reading, that small space of 1.5 x 1.5 is transformed into a gateway to new worlds.

mid 80 ', is nearing the end of the dictatorship. My grandfather Pinochet imposed his iron will in the house where we lived with my padres.Cuando he went to another house, I took advantage to sneak in a piece which he had forbidden us come to me and my brother. That piece, which I christened the room of a thousand pages, was filled with magazines, books, records, photos, two old radios, watches, coats, hats, etc. Given the precariousness of the times, books became my escape route but also a source of learning and inspiration.

So why all the autobiographical racconto? To demonstrate that the taste love of reading is not born product of policies or rules but a concern itself. Of course, the more people have more and better access to the books we can expect a more prepared, more educated and thus less discriminatory. But the love of reading is not taught or learned, at the most inspired.

When my grandfather died, the room of a thousand pages became my bedroom.

Although today there are many options such as Youtube, I do not neglect to read for pleasure in the very act of complicity with the author, imagined worlds and times of others to make them as vivid they become themselves.