105. Claim: Imagination is a more valuable asset thanexperience.
Reason: People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes.
We live in a world unimaginable for the people who lived in the past, or say, the ancient, and who were always conjecturing how the world would be like in their future. Is imagination a more valuable asset than experience? In my perspective, imagination is unequivocally significant in the process of human being’s development; however, it doesn't mean that experienceis inferior to imagination in time of evolvement. The two are both as indispensable as a building’s basement and construction.
Imagination lives in human’s mind, indicating that it can be free from what is realistic and experience. While reading a novel, we may beconverted into the hero salvaging the poor, or living in a recluse life in someidyllic village, of course, in our imagination. However, experience is pragmatic in daily life and it can provide us with a short cut for resolving aproblem. More frequently we cannot live without experience with regards to ournecessary routines.
Admittedly, imagination serves to galvanize the development of society. From fundamental sciences to high technology, the functions of imagination are ubiquitously conducive. Actually, scientists arealways observing a system of research: brave assumptions, meticulous proof.Galileo’s supposition that obstacles could function perennially without frictions was impossible to be proved in reality, yet it was demonstrated theoretically to be right. Without imaging firstly, the discovery of this rule might be postponed for a long time. Newton’s guess of the celestial movement was also potent to attest to the power of imagination. Steve Jobs, the ex-CEOof Apple, was celebrated for his daring thinking of technology products.Whereas he knew little about techniques,it is the courage for imagination andintuitions of products’ realization that makes this world Apple's world.
However, headway cannot be made solely due to imagination. In the process of human’s advancement, experience is also indispensable. The great men are all equipped with full experience andintellect. Moreover, in different fields, people may throw varied weight on it.For example, in history field, imagination is less important than experienceand evidence. Without experience, the suppositions may vanish into the air. AsEdward Gibbon, the European historian, said: “I know no way of judging thefuture but by the past.” In fact, experience is more like knowledge andintellect, guiding people to the path that is more likely to lead to the truth.In such fields, it is indubitable that imagination without reality isfutile.
Though with more experience, it doesn’t mean that this kind of people would lose the ability to imagine. Sometimes, with perspicaciousjudgment, they would own more commodious space for imagination and possibilityto realization, for their capability to know what is accessible in the real world.
On balance, it is unfair to conclude that imagination isa more valuable asset than experience, for imaging without realization isuseless in reality.Only with the strengths of both can something strikingappear. Accordingly, imagination and experience, in my opinion, are equallysignificant while developing. | 
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发表于 2012-3-4 17:05:41
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