Definitely, a victory 小组 个人习作 ISSUE 117 By9号

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TOPIC: ISSUE117 - "The depth of knowledge to be gained from books is richer and broader than what can be learned from direct experience."
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TIME: 00:52:15

The statement asserts that we can learn richer and broader from books than direct experience. I concede that we can learn more from the books. However, the depth of knowledge we can get deeper from the direct experience. For our knowledge is comes from the practices.

Admittedly, the books contain more knowledge, and most of our knowledge and idea are derived from the books. As we all know, from the books we can know the land scope about the out space, while in the meantime, few of us have gone to the moon to have a direct experience, and just a little people go to the observatory to observe the outer sight. The knowledge in the books, excludes the bad ones, is refined by many generations and are the essence of the human culture. Now, we know that the earth turns the sun, while in the past; people think the earth is the center of the universe, as the development of observatory and other relate technology, scientists found from the direct experience that our earth turns around the sun and the sun system is just a small part of the universe.


However, if the knowledge derived from the direct experience helps you understand the knowledge deeper. In the real world, we may meet many problems that need us to solve, and on the process to settle the problems, we can get more direct knowledge and it is not easy to forget, moreover, next time when we face the similar situation, we can do better. For example, many people have learned from the book how to swimming in the river, and you remembered every action and the key points, while they still can't swimming in the river, for the real situation in the river is various in a short time and the swimming need the cooperation of your arms and legs, if you hadn't train to do so in the water, you can't do well in the reality. The theory can not directly used in the reality.

Furthermore, the theory is come from the practice; while we should do some change on it before to use it. For the reality is complex than imagine, we should do something depend on the really situation. For example, in the theory, I know how to control a robot and on the computer I can simulate it perfectly. Yet, in the reality, I should consider about the material, the size, the energy, the circumstance, and so forth. After the first design, we need to do many experiments to test its function and whether it is convenience to use it in the reality. Moreover, in different condition, the robots also need to suit the circumstance, and after solved these and those problems then we can say that we know how to control a robot and our knowledge about robot control are deeper in the process to settle so many problems in the experiments.

In sum, I agree that we can learn broader from the books and we can also learn deeper from the practice. What is more, we should have a critical thinking and learn theory from the book then use it in the practice. In most time, when we can apply what we learned and then learn from the practice, we are really learning.