Television cannot replace the book as a learning tool, which is why children are less well educated today.

Television is a very powerful thing. It can be useful as well as useless, but is it good to use it for educational purposes for our children and how much do they really learn from it? In my opinion, television can become one of the best learning tools for our children.

                First of all, books are tiresome for children. They are more interested in watching something, rather than reading and imagining. For them all the action is happening on screen, not on paper between letters. If a child is more willing to watch something, then it’s able to learn more.

                Additionally, pictures, sounds and videos are very useful in the learning process. They help children remember a lot of important information and fact. For example, when a child watches a cartoon or plays a video-game, it will learn a song, names of characters, where they live and what they do. If that cartoon were about Julius Caesar or an elephant, this child will know all the most important things about their life.

                The reason for children being less well educated today doesn’t lie in television as much as it lies in the quality of television shows. There is a lack of educational TV series, shows and cartoons. Nobody seems to care about what are the children actually learning from the cartoons they are watching. If the teachers and parents start choosing what their little ones are going to watch, everyone would be better educated and happier.

                We live in a world where television is a big part of our life. It makes us laugh, it makes us cry, but at the same time it teaches us as well as our children a lot of different things, and it is without question a very important learning tool.