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4. It has been said, "Not everything that is learned is contained in books." Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?
Hardly anyone can doubt that learning knowledge exerts tremendous influences to the lives of ordinary people, even the development of society and human being. People chasing eternal knowledge often decide whether they would prefer to learn by reading or doing related activities. It is rational to recognize that obtaining knowledge by reading books is a better alternative.
To begin with, in terms of the view, reading books is superior to practical experience in that reading can give people more opportunities to touch, taste and digest different kinds of knowledge. Publication of books is regarded as an essential role of broadcasting the knowledge because it involves almost all of arenas ranging from art to industry. Obviously, alternatives provided by experiences are restricted when compare to reading books. To illustrate it, there is a good case in point. More often than not, archaeologists understand the ancient rituals and ceremonies. They only manage to research clues and materials stem from the professional books rather than unavailable practical experience, because the latter one is subject to boundaries of time and space.
Furthermore, reading can be devised for tough environments and non-flexible schedules, but it is difficult for experience to be accumulated in this case. Due to convenience result from reading book, it can be treated as a partial solution in some vehicles and contents of books are read over and over again. However, practical experiences suffer from the limitations originate from the condition. For example, in train, bus or airplane, we may enjoy the happiness of reading, even probably taste and digest knowledge comfortably. But we seldom take our minds off this journey for any practice which involves considerable preparation and plans.
Finally, book has the reputation of being a cheap media of knowledge which may be more efficient than operation for obtaining experience. For instance, knowledge of same event such as the nuclear weapon theory could be mastered and understood by different ways at the expense of different cost----zenith or nadir. Although a related nuclear experiment can offer people a visual view and many parameters, it costs a large number of financial resources. With respect to the economics, the insightful man invests apt money to get back interest in the form of panorama knowledge by reading many important books. In this pragmatic society that recommends the efficiency is sacred, it is easy for the wise man to make a hardheaded decision for chasing knowledge by reading books. Reading is a good choice which holds the balance between effectiveness and cost.
In a nutshell, people prefer to learn knowledge by reading books, either for the purpose of a big picture of knowledge, or because of convenience of reading books, or just worship to efficiency. Considering the points mentioned above, we can safely draw the conclusion that reading books is a better alternative other than experience the related operations. |
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