BOOKS NOT EVERYTHING
Sir Thomas Inskip (Minister for Coordination of Defence) distributed the awards at the annual prize-giving ceremony of Dudley Grammar School. In his address to the boys he said:
"We have to know to live; we1 have also perhaps to live to know. Knowledge is not all in books; indeed books are a great danger, if you think books are everything. Books are wonderfully attractive, but if you think that everything is to be found in them, and that they will make you wise men, and teach you how to live, you will find ultimately ' that you are making a great mistake. I Jay that, because you will get so much into the habit 'of taking .other people's opinions as. right, that you wi!'. never be able to think for yourself.
"What most of us older people have found is that the more we can cultivate common sense or judgment about the problems of life, the more likely we- are to be successful. It helps us also to apply that God-given quality—lnstinct."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 27
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