700 Common Words Exercise No. 24
Paper itself has come to us from the Far East where it
was first used, but the word paper has come down to us from the Near East and
different forms of the word are found in several languages. Paper is certainly
one of the most common things in the modern world. Every day masses of it are
used: very day masses of it are burnt: and every day masses more of it are made
and supplied to the waiting people of the world. People always want paper and
the manufacturer of it need not fear that the demand for his product will fall
off. Without paper our modern life would, at least for a time, come to a
complete stop. It is indeed very much to be questioned whether our modern life
could ever have come about had there been no paper or time other product of a
like nature which was cheap, lasting, and serviceable. Without paper we could
not write letters to one another. Millions of letters are written every day,
some very important and some of little importance, and they are all written on
paper. Before the use of paper, writing had first to be done by cutting the
characters out of stone and later by using materials which cost so much that
only such people as Kings and army leaders could have them. The common people
could not write and it would have been useless had they been able to write
because there would have been nothing on which to write. And, of course, we can
see at once how impossible it would be to teach people to write if there was no
cheap material on which to write. Today, we in this country all go to school as
children and there we learn to write and to read, and as soon as we can write
and read simple words we begin to learn other things until most of us end by
knowing something about quite a number of things. Some know more and some know
rather less, but it is just about impossible to find anyone in this country
today has not had the opportunity to learn. And for this happy state of things
we generally thank the Government. Little more than a hundred years ago it was
by no means a natural thing for all children to go to school: but the
Governments that have followed one another throughout the years have made it
more and more possible for young people to go to school until we have reached
the state today when we believe that not only should all children go to school
and so learn to read and to write, but we believe further that all children
should be given the opportunity to receive higher education if they show
themselves able to take advantage of such training. The Government have been
very wise and helpful in passing all the Acts which have brought us to this happy
state, but the fact is that it was really the supply of cheap paper in great
amounts that made it possible for us all to learn. Can we picture what school
life would be like without our notebooks and our instruction books? There would
stand a teacher and facing him would sit 20, 30, or 40 little children longing,
let us say, to read and to write, to learn about the history of their own
country and of other countries, to learn about their own land and about other
lands. But the teacher has no books because he has no paper, and the children
have nothing on which they can write and then take away their work and learn
it. Everything must be done from memory. The teacher has to remember what he
has been told and the children in their turn have to remember what they have
been told. Memory is often a poor help. Nearly everyone finds it easier to
learn through reading words than through hearing them. If we wish we can read
the words in a book over and over again but the words of the teacher, once
said, are lost for ever. We can, of course, ask him to say them over again, but
the time taken to learn wholly in this way would be so great that the children
would end up by knowing very little in most cases. Learning became general when
books became general. While books were the property of the few, learning was
also the property of the few. Now books may be had for the asking and learning,
too, may be had for the asking. It is only our personal qualities that limit
the field of our knowledge.
Ghulam Mustafa
Personal Assistant (BS-16)
Punjab Civil Secretariat Lahore.
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