Assalamu'alaikum wr. wb.
Honorable the juries
Honorable the chairman
Dear ladies and gentlemen
First of all, let us praise to the Almighty Allah SWT, because of His Blessing we are to able to attend this English speech entitled: " The Importance of Reading Habit".
ladies and gentlemen...
How to become a good and clever student? In the globalization era, with the modern high technology, as we know, many students are influenced by the situation of their environment. For instance, many students spend their time by watching TV all evening, or doing play-station games, etc. Because of that they forget about something that more useful. They become lazy to study, lazy to do their homework, even they become lazy to read some books. As the result of the laziness , is stupidity. There are still many students in Indonesia who stay in stupidity. So, how to protect about that? And how to overcome the stupidity? I think the suitable answer is; " by reading".
Reading habit is very important in our education. Reading habit had ever told since more than fifteen centuries ago. On the first verse that was accepted by Allah's messenger Mohammad s.a.w said: " Iqrak bismirabbikal ladii cholaq", that means: " Recite on the name of Allah, Great Creator". Actually this verse could animate all people in the world to be clever. But, why? Why, there are still many students who stay in stupidity? Is this the fault of our education system? I think, this is not the fault of our education system, but it's our own fault. Because we don't use to ourselves to read from early. We learn about letter by letter, word by word and then sentences but we don't practice our ability for reading science books or others.
ladies and gentlemen...
Do you know the famous person, like our first President, Bung Karno? He could make a very good speech, he could write many books, he knew the histories of other countries. Do you think that he made a speech and wrote all of his writing without reading before? He is a man who spent most of his time for reading.
Do you know the famous writers, like Hamka, Marah Rusli, Sutan Takdir, Alisyahbana and others? They are men who like to read before starting to write their novels.
And do you know the famous preacher today, like Nur Cahyo, Ust, Jefri al Bukhari and the others? They also always spent their time for reading, either science book or religion books.
Ladies and gentlemen...
By the explanation above, we can take a conclusion.
1. By reading as much as possible, we will be successful students. We will know much about science and knowledge. More we read, cleverer we are.
2. Reading has great influence to be good and clever students.
3. By reading it will increase our knowledge in man subjects.
4. By reading regularly, everything will be easy to be done.
Finally, if we want to be good and clever students or successful students, we must prepare ourselves by reading from early.
Last but not least, if there is some mistake, I beg your pardon.
Thank*you.
