We gain our knowledge about the world and our life from two sources: from experience and from books. These two resources are both important, but which of them is more important?
Knowledge from books forms a very important part of our knowledge structure. In schools and colleges, we learn knowledge which is fundamental to our future career. We learn knowledge from books in order to make our contributions to this society in the future. A student learns mathematic equations and other scientific knowledge and become a scientist or engineer. We will be illiterate and ignorant without learning knowledge from books. Moreover, we acquire knowledge about life and the world by reading books, magazines and newspapers. This is also very important as we cannot experience everything all by ourselves. Therefore books are a very important source of knowledge.
On the other hand, we can't learn everything from a book. “Experience is the best teacher” is an old cliché, but I agree with it. The most important, and sometimes the hardest, lessons we learn in life come from our participation in situations. We learn how to get along with others or how to have self-respect from our experience, not from books. We cannot learn emotional feelings, such as love and care, through books; they come from our real life experience. Knowledge from experience is also a very important supplement to knowledge from books.
Needless to say both learning sources, books and experience, are very important to us. But in my opinion knowledge from experience is more important, because without knowledge from experience, it is impossible to get a real understanding of knowledge from books, and how to apply this knowledge to real world situations.
我们获得知识从两个来源:世界和我们的生活经验和书。这两种资源都是重要的,但更重要的是哪家?
从书本的知识是一个非常重要的部分我们的知识结构。在学校和大学,我们学习的知识,是我们的未来职业生涯的基础。我们从书上学到知识为了让我们对这个社会的贡献在未来。一个学生学习数学方程和其他科学知识,成为一个科学家或工程师。我们将没有从书本学习知识的文盲和无知的。此外,我们对生活和世界获取知识通过阅读书籍,杂志和报纸。这也是非常重要的,我们就无法体验自己所有的一切。因此,书籍是一个非常重要的知识来源。
另一方面,我们不能从书本里学得的。“经验是最好的老师”是一个古老的陈词滥调,但是我同意它。最重要的,有时候最难的,教训我们学习生活中来自参与情况。我们学会如何与别人相处和如何从我们的经验,有自尊不是从书。我们不能学习情感,比如爱和关怀,通过书籍;他们来自我们的现实生活经验。知识来自经验也是一个非常重要的补充知识从书。
不用说学习来源,书籍和经验,对我们很重要。但我认为知识来自经验是更重要的是,因为没有从经验知识,是不可能从书本获得知识的真正理解,以及如何将这些知识应用到现实世界的情况。
