Are books more important than experien16

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.