Why is reading not popular today? Teenagers try to spend their free time with their cell phones. They can chat, play, text, but they don’t read. We can always hear that our ministers of education attribute the crisis of reading to methods of teaching. In their speeches they call teaching too archaic or too modern. In my opinion, these methods have nothing to do with the teenagers’ disaffection of the book. Reading is an activity that can only be practiced in silence and solitude. I think it i...