"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him READ"

In chapter 2 of Readicide Gallagher discusses the importance of flooding the children with text so that they can become life-long readers who read for pleasure and build their prior knowledge. I agree with only half of this statement. While I definitely agree with providing students access to a wide range of texts I don't necessarily agree with the fact that they have to read for pleasure way into adulthood and I'm and English teacher. Although I have always been an avid reader and have a strong passion for it and a witness to its benefits, I also understand that my choice to continue reading for enjoyment into adulthood is a hobby and I can't expect my students to have the same hobbies and interests. Getting students to read to me is like the old saying "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". All I can do is make sure that I expose them to various texts  by incorporating it into my lesson plan such as Gallagher did with the AoW I found that to be a very good idea that I would consider implementing. I already have a small library of my own and I plan to make books available in my classroom, however I have no control over the choices they make once they have graduated or left my classroom I can only hope that what I tried to instill in them over the course of the year about reading stays with them. It is my job to make sure they are literate enough to be productive in the real world, whether they go to college or enter the workforce right out of high school and if they end being lovers of reading then that's a bonus in my opinion.