Hone Imagination

Reading, especially literature, can be a powerful way to hone the imagination. Not surprisingly, in developed countries such as Germany, France, the Netherlands requires high school students must complete up to 22-32 titles as a condition of graduation. While in Indonesia, young children actually drowned on television. Television has made the younger generation to be passive brain, imagination weakened, and ultimately kills slowly possessed creativity.

The low'm reading is also influenced by the current state of our lives. Many people think that money is everything, while reading the literature that gives happiness life (no money) might be useful. Ironically, the phenomenon has been considered reasonable, even considered properly. As a result, increasingly shunned by the reading public.

And clearly, reading is a science to appreciate our efforts and in order to hone the imagination. Keep in mind also that the scientific research presupposes certain ideas that had been held previously. Of course, the ideas that then need to be justified by the facts of observation, but it does not always come directly from the facts. Held ideas often come from the imagination of scientists. (Leahy, 2006:19)

Therefore, a work of fiction that is so close to the imagination must be kept alive and developed. Science fiction and should not contradictory, but complementary. Poet rightly studied science and vice versa, the scientists and scholars who work in government (technocrat) mengakrabi as reading literature. Because history has recorded many discoveries in the field of science and technology-inspired works of fiction.