What do you think of when you consider how you might increase your knowledge? Do you think of goin back to school for an advanced degree or attending a professional learning seminar? Those activities will certainly help you expand your knowledge, but they require significant investments of time, energy and money. The easiest, most flexible, and least expensive way to expand your knowledge is to become a reader.
 
The love of reading runs like a common thread through the lives of the best, the most successful, and the most influential people our world has produced. Theodore Roosevelt is said to have read over 20,000 books in his lifetime. Benjamin Franklin was too poor to buy books, so he would borrow them from friends who were booksellers, then stay up until the wee hours of the night reading so he could return the books by morning. But, those of us who are already readers operate under the false assumption that everyone shares our love of reading. Did you know that 58 percent of American adults never read a book after high school? 
 
But, my life is already so hectic, you say. Where will I find the time to just simply sit down and read? We aren’t talking about finding 2-3 hours every day to read. The author of our book simply suggests this:
 
Read 10 pages of life-changing ideas and information every day.
 
 If you read 10 pages a day, you could finish a 300 page nonfiction book every month. What a simple concept: ten pages a day to change your life! How different would you be next year if you read 12 phenonmenal, life-altering books over the course of the next 12 months? Not only that, you could challenge your students to read 10 pages a day. How much would that increase their reading ability as well as improve their knowledge.