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Compare and contrast learning by doing to learning by reading. In your opinion, which is better? Use specific examples to support your opinion?
Reading is the key to the progress of human. It is reading that made the spirits of our ancestors and advanced technologies pass by from generation to generation, therefore, learning by reading is especially necessary and important. However, when comparing learning by reading to learning by doing, I still consider the latter to be better. Two reasons are given as follows.
First, in many cases, doing is the only way to learn. This is especially true for the learning of music, dance, sports, and so forth. When we are interested in some kind of sports, for example, tennis, what we have to do is just to find a coach, follow his/her behavior or gesture, and practice again and again. Although reading some books on skills of Tennis may help in improving our master of it, without the tennis pat in our hands, we will never known how to play with it. Another example is the learning of dance. As we all know, the bones of kids are much softer than adults, so the younger we start to learn dancing, the better. Kids cannot read when they have not learned the words, but we still see so many lovely young dancers giving really fabulous show on TV and stages. By contrary, for adults, even though they can do the reading quite smoothly, without learning of dance by doing and practising, they still do not know how to dance.
Second, for most subjects, even though both doing and reading are effective ways of learning, doing will largely inspire learners' interest in learning, thus is better. Interest is the best teacher ever. With interest, people can devote themselves on learning for dozens of hours one day without feeling of tired. However, without interest, even 30-minute class will be a disaster and a waste of time. When I was in high school, experiment class was the favorite time for students who majored in chemistry. They were really excited to see translucent solutions became blue when they were mixed, and gas could be created by them to make balloons. After every experiment class, they were more interested and curious about chemistry, and tried to find more books to read to find the answer. Most of students in my class admitted that it is experiment that evoked their interest in chemistry.
Admittedly, reading is a very important way of learning. Reading a book is just like talking with many great persons. Reading can enlarge our view of the world, and take us to brand new places where we can never reach in reality. Although learning by doing will be a better way of learning, we can never neglect learning by reading. Only when combining those two together, we can achieve the best learning finally. |
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