Reading skill is very important in our life. I can assure that it's hard to live without it.
Reading is a choice of homo sapiens. Through reading, you explore new things, new information, new ways to solve some problems. In addition, it can even change a worldview. Reading is a little but the best step to achieve a bigger things. While reading you exposes to a world of imafination and creativity. that reinforse the fact, that there is nothing impossible in this world. How many people can withstand on our planet Earth? So reading is a big opportunity to be not as all.
And the simpliest thing, that knows every child not by hearsay is the more you read the more you know! No matter what you are reading about: about the art of Michlangelo or how to construct a helicopter/ Our world needs smart people!