Reading makes a full man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By victory999
@victory999 (758)
China
October 31, 2008 12:24am CST
"Reading makes a full man"is saying of the famous English philosopher Francis Bacon.It means that anyone who want ot be a full man must keep on reading.
A full man may be defined as one who has a mind filled with ideas,or one who is stocked with knowledge,Certainly schooleducation can fill the young minds with a certain amount of ideas and knowledge.but don't think thatthe ideas and knowledge thus taught make a full man because he is a graduate of a middle school or even a university.
Then can such ideas and knowledge be obtained through experience?Indeed,form experience we get new ideas.But to suppose that ideas
thus acquired make a full man is also mistake.A carpenter's experience is different form a smith's and a smith's is different from a barber's.Obviously,the statement that experience can make a full man does not hold water,either.
Therefore,no matter how high our education may be or how much experience we may have,we can not become a full man unless we keep reading.
1 response
@bbsr13 (4196)
• India
1 Nov 08
Hello! Our life is too short to gather some knowledge from the vast ocean of knowledge.What we have read in the school and college is not enough even for earning our livelihood.So to gather knowledge we have to read a lot daily may be a book of history or economics or geography or politics or any other subject in which we have some interest.Unless we read how can we know what is politics or geography.So don't waste your time and try your best to findout some time to read books of your interest.thanx.


