Hi Kitos,
I hope am preparing well for TOEFL…
I feel this only because of your suggestions for my essay and speech…
Since Am not going to any class for TOEFL you are my only teacher…
I really have to thank you for your involvement, responding, patience, tolerable etc.,
I have attached an essay here’…
Will you please correct me and rank me …
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?
I believe that the knowledge gained from experience lasts long and is valuable when compared to the knowledge gained from the book, because of the following reasons.
One reason for me to think that experience is best than the knowledge from book is because there is a best quote, ‘Experience is the best teacher’. Without theoretical knowledge, and only with the experience in some field, one can easily survive in that particular field and he can also succeed. But without experience and only with theoretical knowledge, nothing is possible to be done for a particular individual in any field. So, I prefer experience is best.
Another reason for me to feel that the knowledge through experience ranks high than the knowledge using book is that, a guy best in theoretical knowledge can only be able to succeed in written exams and not in manual work. Although, he scores first in exam and one of the best student in the class, his rank is fail in the future because, the concepts which he grasped from book remains in his mind, only if he implements it practically. Thus my opinion is, knowledge through experience is important.
Finally, I would say that in this fast moving and competitive world, though there are many opportunities available in various fields, only the guy with practical knowledge and experience can compete the obstructions and would be able to achieve the best level, whereas the guy with theoretical knowledge would not even be able to try to compete and would be frustrated, being the success guy in his school days. Thus, book knowledge is valuable only for school and college level and experience and practical knowledge is valuable for the entire life which even starts from childhood.
To conclude, I would say that the knowledge gained from experience is more important than the knowledge gained from the book, because experience is the best teacher and this knowledge gets buried into our mind which will never be erased and is most efficient.
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