Not all learning takes place in the classroom.

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It has been said, “Not all learning takes place in the classroom.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from personal experience with knowledge gained from classroom instruction. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

I agree with this statement “Not all learning takes place in the classroom." All knowledge should not obtain from class because subject only taught by a teacher. But some lessons, which are pertaining to life, only will demonstrate by personal experiences. Every person should be learning more from real life than class room. I think real life is the best example for learning and obtaining knowledge. This is supported by various reasons.

First of all, Personal experience is essential for obtaining indelible knowledge. For instance, in an early age the teacher would teach about animals. Is it gives sufficient knowledge for children? No, it does not. When teachers will take them in to the zoo and explain about those animals, they never forget that information. This is one type of personal experience. Which knowledge have gotten by personal experience, it will be never loss.

Second, the relationship among the people as well as friendship values is not taught by teachers in the classroom. Those relationships have known only by personal experience. Further, the young age person do not realise about money value. The same person should know about money value while he starts earning of money.

Finally, sometimes a new technology and new things were discovered by personal experience but not classroom knowledge. For instance, today’s popular phone was discovered by Alexander graham bell. It was discovered by accidently but not part of an educational research. Today, various popular technologies and things also discovered from their real life.

In conclusion, the illiterate persons also can maintain different business successfully using their personal life experience. Unfortunately, an erudite people also will fail in business because lake of experience. So I strongly believe that “Not all learning takes place in the classroom." Because, if we have only classroom knowledge; today, we do not have any TV, computers, and other technologies. We surely obtain more knowledge from personal life than classroom knowledge.

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Hi,

I haven’t gone through your post, however liked the topic, hence thought of drafting the essay. I would read yours and comment on the same

Please read and let me know your thoughts on the same.

I strongly believe that learning is a journey which has no destination. With varied experience and challenges one gets a chance to horn the skills. However, one needs to understand that unless and until the foundation is strong, the building will not stand erect for many years.

Classroom is a platform which paves way for students to get unlimited knowledge. This is an environment which aids them to learn the concepts right. It does not just stop them at mere understanding of the concepts, however the pool of students milieu gives them more room to analyse why does the concept hold true. Also with a guide who has been teaching the concepts for many years, would aid them to get the crux of the concept easily.

But learning the basics alone will not equip the student. And the idea of learning concepts is not just for acquiring knowledge. All these concepts need to be applied in the real time environment. This is where the limitations and the challenges that are associated with each concept that the students have learnt comes in to picture. For example, acquiring knowledge is as good as knowing different parts of the car such as accelerator, break, clutch, steering, horn etc. Bookish knowledge may teach you the use of half clutch, however only when a person drives will he be exposed to the importance of half clutch, how to use it and when all half clutch is useful.

Thus in conclusion I would say that bookish knowledge and real time exposure go hand in hand. And they will not be effective without if they function in solos. Hence it is predominant for a person to understand the importance of the two. Thus a person who understands the criticality of these does achieve great heights in life.