Importance of Literature

In order to state the importance of literature in education and society development we first need to get a clear idea of what is literature. In my own opinion literature could be defined as words that express ideas in  many different ways but that can be understood. We also have to have in mind that literature has change drastically along time. From the ancient Greeks throw the obscurantism of the Middle Age until the actual variety in literature. 

Obviously literature has affected education in many ways. Without text it would be almost impossible to learn how to speak, read, write and discover things that are taught at school. Literature is the "where" and "how" an important author or anyone that knows about something communicates all his knowledge to us, making us a better and more enlightened society. And that is what literature is all about: communication. It also allows us to save knowledge and therefore this knowledge is remembered. Just imagine how difficult it would be to build a house without all the previous knowledge of the resistance of materials, the way different tools work, the law of gravity, just to mention some. Our society is constructed around literature and our society works through education, so without literature I can assure you that we would have a totally undeveloped world. Every book, every text, every sentence, every word it is literature. Even everything that is found on the internet. Think how valuable all this is, think how would you be without it. Because when we read something, no matter how insignificant, it affects us and it makes us change. This change is also experimented in our society; it can be a big one or probably a small one depending on it's importance.

Literature makes us who we are. Since the very first moment you learned to read and write, and how you improved through your education until now that you interact on a complex society where these skills are essential.

"Books are humanity in print." .- Barbara W. Tuchman