Are books more important than experience? There is a saying that "Not everything that is learned is contained in books." I cannot agree with it more We should not ignore resources of knowledge other than books, such as experience First of all, experience teaches us much knowledge which rarely appears in books For example, no books teach us how to drive cars Most people learn driving by practice under the guidance of experienced drivers, and only by practicing himself, can one really learn how to drive Perhaps there are some books teaching driving, but people can hardly learn driving by merely reading manuals, as people can hardly learn swimming without jumping into the water Secondly, only from experience can people explore throughout the unknowns and gain new knowledge Knowledge on the first book comes from nowhere but experience Franklin discovered the electricity by his kit, Magellan found that the earth is spherical by sailing People find new knowledge from experience and write them into books It is in this way that human-being explore the world generation by generation However, I am not saying that knowledge from book is non-sense Books are the most available and most effective methods to gain knowledge People learn knowledge from books without painfully exploring the world himself, this is the value of books But nowadays there is a harmful thought that all knowledge can be found on books, and people need not experience by himself So it is worthy pointing out that, knowledge from experience is as important as, if not more important than those from books