As far as I remember, the students in my class had been debating the pros or cons whether people are learned everything in books. Of course, there is an old saying that reading books affect us to develop our knowledge or conception. However, it is not included everything for learning. From my point of view, people are much more gained knowledge from their experiences. They are learned lots of knowledge from a variety of situations or conditions. However, books just offer people to image in the books’ stories, not offer people to realize real life. There are some instances to support my opinion.
First and foremost, the reason why I personally think experiences provide more knowledge than books is that people are learning their conceptions or intelligences as they are experiencing. For example, people are realized what is a wrong or right by failing their trial. There was such a case in our lives, two months ago, I took a TOEFL test. I thought it would be easy to me because I studied a lot by using a bunch of the English books and saw the books a lot of times again and again. However, the score was not enough to make me satisfaction. After I failed the test, I have been realizing that the books have not everything to support my English skill. First, I need to adapt the English environments from real experiences. Therefore, now I am trying to make conversation with friends for using English and I am trying to listen carefully what they say to me. As I can see, books are not at all to support our knowledge, people need to experience to figure out what they need.
Secondly, as I have mentioned above, books have less knowledge to make people can realize many things. A book tends to describe a story and offers many information or conceptions which have not known in our lives. This is one of the reasons that many people read a variety of books. On the contrary, even if books provide us various thoughts or ideas, can we depend on them everything all right? Or can we make a right decision from knowledge in the books? Of course not. We cannot trust everything from them. It means we are not learned everything from books.
In conclusion, although everyone may hold a different position on this issue, I am confident in saying that our experiences offer much more knowledge than books. The reasons are simple; one, as we know, we are learning lots of precious things from experience which cannot found in books. Two, books have not enough to describe real world as much as our experiences. |