Both reading books and experiencing are useful ways to gain knowledge. Some argues that experiencing is better than reading books. It is because if people obtain information by reading a book, they only obtain information indirectly because they can only understand the knowledge through their imagination or guessing. Others, however, content that the way getting knowledge from books is better than from experience for two reasons. Initially, it is easier to access the information from a book than from experience. Moreover, reading books is more economical to gain knowledge than experience.
To begin with, reading books is the more convenience method to get knowledge than experience. If people want to learn historical events, they have to go somewhere to visit historical places or to meet experts. The way is very time consuming and inconvenient and hard to reach the information. It is because sometimes they might fail to meet the experts or visiting any places for several reasons like insufficient time or expenses. When people read books, however, they can obtain information easily. The only thing they have to do is getting proper and useful books suiting their purposes. They do not need to leave far way from their house, but they just need to go bookstores or library to get the books.
People also can get much more information than experience at the same amount time. Before I have been America as an exchange student, I did not know anything about American college or the country itself, so I needed to get lots of information to survive there. For this reason, I initially wanted to meet someone who had already been America, and I found a few people and talked with them. However, it was almost impossible to meet many people and the information they gave me was not enough. Therefore, I changed my mind and started to read books to get knowledge about American life. There were so many books about America than I expected before, so I choose some proper book and read, so I could learn many things about the country.
Experience could be one of the very useful ways to gain knowledge. It is because if people learn from their senses, they can understand and remember the information they feel well. Many people, on the other hand, recommend reading books to gain knowledge not experiencing. This is because reading is a more available and economical way than experience to learn. Some one said reading is the matter that own head is thought as other people's head. The power of a book deserves to be believed by human being. |