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September 2011 -“It isn’t What the Book Costs.It’s what it costs if you don’t read it.” (Jim Rohn)

During Adult Learners’ Week this year, the South African government encouraged all South Africans to read. Learners or not, reading is the essential basis to knowledge and understanding. We take the skill of reading for granted once we can read ourselves. And perhaps the week after Adult Learners’ Week is good time to reflect on the skills that are promoted by reading? And let us consider a workforce or a community that does NOT have these skills? And now consider the cost!

From interpreting scenes and situations to expressing ourselves, imagining, verbalizing, thinking, reasoning, debating and public speaking, reading has no bounds to its benefit. Reading builds our vocabulary and creates our awareness of current affairs.

The Adult Education and Training learners from Afrisam Wynberg and Afrisam Olifantsfontein are proof of what reading can do. Studying both Literacy and Numeracy said the learners in our recent class visit, made them realise that they can do nothing without reading skills. Numeracy is linguistically based and even the best mathematician needs good language skills to solve problems. These AET learners started at Level 1 and have progressed excellently despite doing two learning areas and having other commitments such as work and family duties.

Scenes from Afrisam Olifantsfontein

Scenes from Afrisam Wynberg

The growth in skills and confidence is evident in all the classes. The learners paid much to tribute their AET facilitators, the current AET learning materials and the face-to-face methodology. They stated that they love the interaction they have with the other people in the sessions.

And we now pay tribute to Afrisam and the AET learners. Being an adult learner is hard work and we encourage you to keep this up. And we encourage the rest of you, even if you are blessed to have a full qualification already, to remember that, Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. (Joseph Addison)