The reason school encourage reading books is because it increases a students vocabulary. But what a lot of people don't understand is that magazines and movies(etc.)provide the same values, amirite?

Books also stimulate imagination.

Obviously they don't, or else you wouldn't have said "The reason school encourage"

Magazines (and newspapers for that matter) are mostly written at an 8th grade reading level, so odds are that won't do much for your vocabulary.

Yeah Shakespeare is the same level as "seventeen" magazine (Sarcasm)

Postman...

How is a student's vocabulary a "value"?