Reading is the accumulation of the constant of your mind and the ability to breakdown your languages constructs and reform them back to get a better understanding of the world and descriptors and descriptions of the world. Through the language you have access to, however sense you are indoctrinated into language since us as humans are tribal beings and spread knowledge generation to generation if you do not learn the language of your land to the highest degree you cannot delve into a higher area of thinking that others before you had.