A few years ago, I read a column titled, “Does Stacking Books Make Your kids Smarter?” According to research conducted by teams in Australia and the U.S., even if children don’t read books, just seeing stacks of books at home can enhance their intellectual abilities. It was also said that having many books at home had a positive impact on educational achievement. This wasn’t a hastily conducted study; it was published in the international academic journal of sociology and statistics, ‘Social Science Research’, and analyzed five years of data from the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). The study compared the amount of books at home during childhood and adolescence with test results from a survey of 160,000 adults in 31 countries. Hmm… I wonder if mothers buy these books because of such research findings? In every house I visit for classes, there are a lot of book set proudly occupying the living room. The sight is so impressive that ev...
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