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Essay 47 Topic 4 Are books more important than experience?

Upon the question that which source is more important? Knowledge gained from
experience or from books? People may have different opinions. Admittedly, both of them
have advantages and disadvantages, and they are both important. The undeniable fact is
that ot everything that is learned is contained in books. ?If someone who wants to know
how to swim or drive just reads through books but never experiences himself, he can
learn nothing in the end. This example can tell us how important it is to gain knowledge
from experience. But as for me, a college student, I would say, gaining knowledge from
books is more important. There are three reasons support my point of view.

The main reason for my propensity for gaining knowledge from books is that, some
knowledge can never be learned from experience. As we all know, some knowledge is
recorded by scientists or people from ancient times to present, from home and abroad.
They are the symbol of wisdom. We can say, books are not only excellent source for us
to know about the past, but also excellent source for us to know what is happening in the
world today, and what is probably going on in the future. Without books, how can we
gain the precious knowledge from our forefathers ? Without books, how can we know
one thing or two about the outer space? Obviously, it is impossible to know that from
experience.

A more personal reason why I think knowledge from books is a more important source is
that it is not only a broader source, but also, it is an efficient way to learn. Gaining
knowledge from books can save us a lot of time and energy. As a college student, it is not
necessary to test every theory in one`s own experience; and it is not necessary to get

we have to learn from books, for our common sense not come in handy.

Although both experience and books can help us, as always, be on the right track, they
may sometimes lead us to receive wrong information. Because our experiences are
gained from our direct observation, it is inevitable mixed with some our subjectivity,
which, not surprisingly lead to wrong understanding of something. And books, such as
stocking guided books, may do little to reduce investment risk, or even mislead people,
considering what the financial future holds can no be predicted with certainty.

No person can claim that he is able to learn everything only through experience or only
from books. The way to learn is relatively different varying from periods to periods,
occupation to occupation, individual to individual. we can choose the most appropriate
way in accordance with our own situation

Essay 49 Topic 4 Are books more important than experience?

The brain is a large center for the storage of knowledge. Our brain`s capability of
responding to the external world is based on our knowledge. We acquire this knowledge
from books or through experience. Although these are not the only ones, they are the
fundamental sources of knowledge. To gain knowledge from a book, one has to read the
book, comprehend it, and memorize it, while in experience; everything is connected to
practice and memory. But generally they both are ways of acquiring knowledge and also,
they both can be used effectively depending on the user`s capability of understanding.
Based on this I support that gaining knowledge from books is better.

Books are the works of writers. They are written with full compliance with established
laws. When writers write, they would not include matters that are irregular and which
sometimes deviate from the laws until an explanation with detailed proof is given. But in
experience, one can get quite acquainted with abnormal matters with abnormal matters,
which would likely be excluded from books. In experience proof is almost irrelevant. A

learn how to drive. Perhaps there are some books teaching driving, but people can hardly
learn driving by merely reading manuals, as people can hardly learn swimming without
jumping into the water.

Secondly, only from experience can people explore throughout the unknowns and gain
new knowledge. Knowledge on the first book comes from nowhere but experience.
Franklin discovered the electricity by his kit, Magellan found that the earth is spherical
by sailing. People find new knowledge from experience and write them into books. It is
in this way that human-being explore the world generation by generation.

However, I am not saying that knowledge from book is non-sense. Books are the most
available and most effective methods to gain knowledge. People learn knowledge from
books without painfully exploring the world himself, this is the value of books. But
nowadays there is a harmful thought that all knowledge can be found on books, and
people need not experience by himself. So it is worthy pointing out that, knowledge from
experience is as important as, if not more important than those from books.

Essay 51 Topic 4 Are books more important than experience?

ot everything is contained in books. ?Books can provide a lot of information but they
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cannot teach people what real life experiences can teach. On the other hand life
experiences cannot teach us what books can. Real life experiences have advantages and
disadvantages as well as books do.

Books have existed even before our existence in this world. They are the best source of
knowledge. They help us learn about the past and present. Books aid us in learning about
latest discoveries and inventions. I had a history project and I did not know where to get
information because I did not exist in those times. I went to the library and found so


Though certainly the books provide one a wide range of information even from the area
the experience of his life would never reach, once he tries to manage something in
practice depending on the information gained only from books, he will note that they are
not a source of the perfect information.

For example, suppose that we had 20 books which teach us how to cook Japanese dishes
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and we decided to make a Sushi roll. The books will be very useful because they indicate
what we have to buy and what kind of procedures we should take. Even in case we never
had seen Sushi nor the process of cooking, some books would should them in their
pictures. We do not have to memorize each information because with those books we
would always be able to review it.

However, what will happen if we had never eaten Sushi? Some professional chef might
be able to imagine how it could taste by the information of the books, but even in that
case he would not know how delicious it would be nor how good Sushi should taste. The
majority of authors of those books write depending on their own experience and they
definitively should have not imagined what kind of difficulties could occur if a Nigerian
Chef try to make a Sushi roll with the African rice which is drier and smells stronger than
Japanese rice. Without an experience of making it with a teacher, one would never learn
how strongly one should give the pressure as rolling it.

In conclusion, the information of books is not complete. They are useful as reference
because they provide the basic information that everybody look for and also details that
other person investigated or experienced which you might not obtain only by your
experience, whereas you cannot totally depend on their information when you intend to
gain knowledge.