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It is controversial whether books are more important sources
to gain knowledge or not. Some people insist that books contain every
knowledge, therefore they are superior to experience. However, I agree that
experience is the better source to learn for two reasons. First, knowledge
gained from experience is easier to remember. Second, here are many things in
real world that we cannot learn from books.
People tend to remember better when they learn through
experience. Although the written knowledge flies away as time goes by, the
knowledge we gain from experience do not. Let me take one psychological
experiment as an example. For one group, they gave books that explained how to
unlock the door; for the other group, they taught them how to unlock the door as
they let them to try. When these two different groups were locked in a room,
there were more people from the second group, who opened the door and got out
of the room. This shows how the experience helped them to remember the
knowledge easily.
Not everything that is learned is contained in books. There
are more and more things we can learn from the real world, but not from books.
Let me take my experience as an example. One time, my class took a field trip
to a nursing home. First I wondered what we would learn from nursing home by
helping those people in there, but when we actually got there and talked to
them, it completely changed my mind. We learned how to love people and how to
share the blessing we had. I would’ve never been able to learn these from
books.
In conclusion, I agree that experience is more important
source to learn from for the two reasons I have mentioned above. It helps us
remember easily, and teaches us something we cannot learn from the books.
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