Can't agree more. We read so many books to my kid when se was young that she almost taught herself how to write and read at 5. Now she can read a couple of books per day, thanks god the public library is free and has soo many that she'll always have something to read or I could go bankrupt buying them.

But truly it's up to family to a large degree. When I was a child my mother helped a kid of a working woman to learn to read when he was 10. He was 1 year younger than me, same school and many teachers in common.