2. “Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.”
- Richard Sleete
3. “A man without books is as a
body without a soul.”
- Cicero
4. “The greatest gift is a passion
for reading. It is cheap, it
consoles, it excites, it gives you
knowledge of the world and
experience of a wide kind. It is
a moral illumination.”
- Elizabeth Hardwick
6. • According to paleontologists who
study fossils and other evidence of
life on earth, as the first man lived in
communities, he was a social being
who communicated with his kind.
• In the beginning, however, he
employed grunts and body language
using gestures and postures to
convey his ideas and needs to others.
7. • Slowly, he developed oral language
which enabled him to express more
clearly the messages he wanted to
convey.
• In time, various circumstances such
as the need to communicate to others
who are distant in place caused man
to devise symbols corresponding to
his oral messages.
8. • The Old Stone Age rock painting and
in the cuneiform are evidence of the
earliest human act of picture-writing
and reading.
9. • Egyptian civilization along the Nile
River carved their pictorial symbols
known as hieroglyphics on the stone
wall of temples and tombs.
• Egyptians also invented
Paper derived from the
Papyrus plant.
10. • But the greatest contribution to the
progress of ancient civilization came
from the Phoenicians who adopted
and spread the use of letter-symbols
of the alphabet.
• Due to its simplicity, it was developed
by other people such as by the
Greeks and the Romans.
