The real problem is teaching children that "reading" is merely decoding words off a page, and "listening" is merely hearing the words someone says.
The book itself is a way to open the door to learning, not the end point. Reading subject titles first, cross-referencing, and working examples and doing projects help teach and cement ideas.
There's techniques like SQ4R [1] for reading, and hugely applicable to general technical and article reading is "How to read a paper" [2]. For lecturers, there's "How to Speak" [3], and for those attending a talk there's the Cornell Notes system. [4]
The book itself is a way to open the door to learning, not the end point. Reading subject titles first, cross-referencing, and working examples and doing projects help teach and cement ideas.
There's techniques like SQ4R [1] for reading, and hugely applicable to general technical and article reading is "How to read a paper" [2]. For lecturers, there's "How to Speak" [3], and for those attending a talk there's the Cornell Notes system. [4]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R
[2]: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes