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117"The depth of knowledge to be gained from books is richer and broader than what can be learned from direct experience."
Do we get a richer and broader knowledge from books than from direct experience? The above statement asserts so. As a matter of fact, the issue of whether the knowledge gained from books or from the direct experience is deeper is a complex one, different people hold different views due to their distinct backgrounds. In my point of view, I strongly agree with the speaker's view, yet we cannot neglect the value of the direct experience.
To begin with, the first and foremost reason in support of my view is that books can give us the experiences of others, thereby helping us to get different perspective of life and the world. When human beings learn to write, they begin to write the things they met, the events in their daily lives, thus, we can learn the experiences of them and even learn their perspective of the world and attitude to life. A good case can be found in this respect is the literature. No matter it is a novel or an autobiography, the writer always describes the things happen in daily life, the thoughts and so forth. From the novel pr the autobiography, we can learn the experiences of others, which show a different world and a different perspective of the world. With the knowledge we get from the books, the famous novel "Root", for example, maybe we can earn the life of the African-American; learn their attitude towards life and other races. Thus we can know all human beings are essentially the same, thereby eliminating the racial prejudice. Under this condition, we can conclude that the knowledge from books give us a broader world.
Another reason for me to agree with the author's view is that book can give us a whole sense of the experiences, helping us form a system of the knowledge. The books are usually written with a aim of telling something or proving something, therefore, they usually have logical reasoning and a systematic knowledge. People who read the books can get a system of the knowledge. For instance, when we read a history book, we can get the whole sense of the historical knowledge written in the book, and know the relationship between different historical events, as a result, we can get a system of the knowledge of history in this book. Therefore, the knowledge we get from the books are more thorough, and books can help us acquire the whole sense of the knowledge.
Admittedly, direct experience can give us a precise meaning of what we learn from books. Only stopping at the knowledge from books is far from the way of acquiring true knowledge. Without direct experience, one can hardly determine whether the knowledge written in the books is right or not. With a direct experience, we can understand more thoroughly about the knowledge from the books. For example, when we know the fact that human beings evolved from other forms, maybe we are confused at the knowledge, but if we have a experience of observing the animals which are greatly like human beings, the confusion may disappear, and we can understand deeply about the knowledge. Thus, we cannot neglect the importance of direct experience.
In summary, books can give us a broader and richer experience of others, show us the diversity of the world, and help us get a whole sense of the experience, thereby helping us acquiring the knowledge more thoroughly. Yet the direct experience can give us a precise meaning of the knowledge we get from books, thus, we can understand the knowledge deeply. |
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