It has been said, 'Not everything that is learned is ...



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?

All knowledge may be categorized in two types: theoretical and practical. Theoretical knowledge can be acquired from books, while you get(?) practical one only from experience. Although both types are important, I believe that experience is vital, whereas knowledge from books is just useful.

Firstly, there are plenty things that you will never learn to do until you try. Let’s take swimming as an example, no matter how many books you’ve read about swimming, you never can’t swim without moving your hands and legs in water. Almost all basic activities – walking, talking, riding bicycle, driving car – to name but a few - can’t be learnt from books.

Secondly, knowledge from experience remains in your memory longer than if you learn the same thing by reading it on a book. It is always more effective to prove mathematical formula by yourself than read it from a textbook. You will never speak a foreign language if you only learn plenty of rules by heart, but don’t try to speak. I believe that all knowledge acquired from books should be supported by practice.

Despite the great importance of theoretical knowledge, almost all vital professions extremely rely on experience. It’s unimaginable that inexperienced doctor completes a difficult operation, even if he had read tons of books about medicine. The same thing can be said about firemen, they train a lot in order to save people’s life and it is impossible to replace their trainings by theoretical lessons.

Finally, I would prefer to say “only something that is learned is contained in book”. Although books are a precious resource for improving our knowledge as there are things that we learn through the books we could never learn in other ways, all the educational (познавательные?) books were written by someone who had got his experience from the real life.

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