Hellow, everyone,
This is my first voice recording here on the forum.
I want to read an essay for you. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: ‘Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s palace’. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace.
The online voice recorder is an exciting tool and I hope to hear from you soon.
Bye.
I couldn’t understand anything past the introductory portion, but I think it’s mostly because of the poor quality of the audio. There seems to be a lot of static and background noise.
In my opinion, learning from knowledge is more important than being educated through books.
Knowledge gained from experience is fundamental in everyone’s life. Humans live in society. First, parents generate some children, and family is the first example of living in a small group. Then, parents will be responsible for the first knowledge that children have. Second, as a rule, children will have friends and then more opportunities to have new understanding. Third, children will be part of an educational system. Thus, the teachers, mainly, will share most of their experience with the students. As time goes by, every individual will be part of another community, and each one will progress, acquire more knowledge, in the education system. Finally, as part of human nature, everyone will have a job, and anyone will get married. Therefore, humans have a lot of chances to mature, to gain prospective, no matter where he/she is. Finally, to be alive means having the chance of socializing whenever someone is performing any action. And every interaction, in all walks of life, provides to any person the time to gather information.
Learning from books is also very essential in every human action. Books are part of human’s lives since the early age. Everyone has books at home, at school and at work. Learning from books, even an e-book, is very important, as every person will have the chance to confront the theory presented in the books with reality, and hence the learner will see if the practice is happening according to the lessons from the books. Many people say that practice is different from the theories shown in books. More importantly, the learner will be able to add his/her own experience to the theories learned in his/her lifetime.
To sum up, learning from knowledge is fundamentally more important than being educated through books, for the reasons I have listed above. The personal experiences are so rich and varied, that is impossible, for every human, to predict how the real life will be.
So sorry, the noise is too loud. I can’t even listen to your voice.
I couldn’t agree with you more, Jose.