By saying “ not everything that is learned is contained in books”, someone contend that knowledge gained from experience is at least as important as, if not more important, knowledge gained from books. In my opinion, despite the fact that experience is an important source of leaning, knowledge learned from books is the most important of all ways of learning.
The advantage of knowledge gained from experience lies on its practicability. That is, we can apply easily and quickly what we learn from experience into practice. By contrast, knowledge derived from books sometimes cannot easily be applied directly into practice. Take learning how to drive a car for instance. Knowledge from some books may give learners a whole picture and some details of driving, but only after they have sat in a real car for long enough time learning how to handle the complicated system in it, can they boast they have learned how to drive.
On the other hand, learning from books have some edge over learning from experience in that from books, we can obtain knowledge of more systematic, complete, and theoretic. For example, when studying computer programming, learners must first make clear of some basic concepts and systematic background knowledge, such as what are computer languages and how they work, or what are principles of programming, etc. More often that not, learners get these directly from books concerning computer science, because the contents in them are usually systematically organized, elaborated and illustrated vividly, typically by experts in computer science. It will be very hard to image how a person struggle to learn computer programming merely by operating a computer, without the help of relevant books.
Moreover, thanks to the huge access to various kinds of books, learning from books is very convenient and comfortable. So books are plentiful and handful today that we can read and study whenever we want and wherever we are. In some cases, learning from books is even more time-saving and economical than learning from experience. For example, an American student researching the architecture in Africa do not need to spend a lot of money staying in Africa for a few days; rather, he or she can easily learn from books a lot of aspects of architecture in Africa.
From what we have discussed above, we can conclude that although experience is an important and indispensable source of knowledge, books is more preferable because they can provide us systematic and thorough knowledge, in a convenient and economical way. 写得真好!稍微练习估计5-6分一定有了。 |