Questions You're Not Supposed To Ask
by Tony Williams, New Holland Press, $24.99
Tony Williams answers "those" questions as only he can in this surprising small book which should be handed to every senior student and their elders.
Williams, writer, performer, director and producer, aims to arm the ordinary person with the
kind of knowledge that the powers-that-be do not want them to know and so defeat ignorance.
The topics include sex (at the beginning of the book so that teenage readers will get hooked), education, identity, tax and the big questions of religion, art, what is mind, and whether there is more to life than meets the eye.
Williams uses the derivation of words such as "money" and "education" to explore the history of ideas in an interesting and often humorous way.
I'll bet he would have made a wonderful classroom teacher.
Williams is well versed in the classical languages of Latin and Greek, as well as their philosophy.
That ties in with a notable revival of these subjects in secondary schools today. There is never a dull moment in Questions You're Not Supposed To Ask.
Such as "What is work?" The short answer, the reason we get up in the mornings, is followed by an ascending list of categories, from criminal through unemployed, student, job, career, profession to vocation. Williams' questions and answers are stimulating, informative, debatable and above make readers think for themselves - an admirable outcome.
The ultimate happiness prescription.
