“Reading can play the part of rescuing children who live the wretched life of extreme poverty – a life of deprivation kills children's ambition, so that they accept whatever comes their way. And here comes the part of reading, for it helps the children escape from their confined space and difficult time to unbounded space and stimulates them to extend their vision until it coextends with all history. Reading is in this case not a component of life – it is life! Indeed, poor and illiterate families' children need reading more than other children, so that they do not fall a prey to desperation, hopelessness, and narrow-mindedness.”
Book:A Child Reads