A book is like a vast storage where knowledge of everything is written. It is from a book where all information is stored. True that we don't need too much books now to read in order to learn everything around us because with just a click of a mouse, we can now know what we want to know. Even then, in the Internet, posts that are published online have references that comes from a book or books.
How can you open a book when you don't know how to read and understand it. Like an alphabet that starts with "A", you have to "learn" first how to pronounce your ABC, which is taught by your parents. That's the first step. The second step, you have to learn how to completely pronounce the 26 letters of the alphabet, still taught by your parents. From your birth, you have to wait for 4-6 years before you can learn how to write the alphabets. You cannot start your elementary grade until you reach the age of 6-7 years old. In your first grade, your teacher will slowly teach you how to read words using flash cards. You will spend 6 years in your elementary grade to be able to read and understand what you are reading. Depending on your IQ, or if you are a slow learner, maybe 6 years in elementary is not enough to be able to understand how to read even a pocket book.
As you enter secondary, it will take you 4 years to learn more vocabularies, grammar, synonyms, antonyms, and so on. Upon finishing high school (depending again on your IQ), you are now in your college to prepare for a course. This is now the start of opening a book...the warehouse of knowledge.
Confucius is very true. You cannot open a book if you don't know yet how to read and understand what you are reading. Step by step. Learn first your ABC, learn the complete alphabet, learn how to hold a pencil, learn how to read flash cards, learn how to use ball-pen, learn how to find words in the dictionary, learn the synonyms and the antonyms...etc.
Great learning you will go through first before you can open a book...the warehouse of knowledge :)
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