The writer stresses the importance of inculcating the reading habit if Malaysia wants to move towards becoming a First World nation.
TO DESTROY an entire community and its idealism, the Nazis had in April 1933 conducted a Biblioclasm, or book burning, to “cleanse” Germany against “the un-German Spirit’. Similarly, in 213 BC, and again when the communist movement found its grounds in what is now the People’s Republic of China, all books on confucianism and writings were burnt.
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