TOEFL writing practice I(Comparison)

Is has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast gained from experience with knowledge gained from book. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

To fully make use of knowledge acquired, it is indispensable to select the way of accumulating information. Some claim that the knowledge gained from personal experience is more significant, while others disagree with the opinion and argue that the knowledge provided by books is much more essential. Below are points to analyze both method of obtaining knowledge.

To begin with, the knowledge gained from book is theoretical while that of experience is practical, and in our real life that of practical experience is far more needed. Speaking of dealing with daily life situation, the knowledge gained from substantial experience is more useful to solve problems than that of gained from reading, cannot be turned into practically use. For example, there are a great number of students just graduating from university facing the unemployment crisis due to the lack of the knowledge learned from realistic workplace. The knowledge gained from books, however, regardless of containing a great variety of knowledge, some knowledge would nerve been implemented in reality like the atmosphere of Mars could be exclusively learned from book, but it would never been experienced by a person. Apparently, the knowledge acquired from experience is more effective than books.

The second dissimilarity between these two types of knowledge gained is the cost. The knowledge acquired from experience is more economical than which gained from books. For example, knowledge gained from textbook is more expensive than acquired from experience due to requiring a bunch of textbooks for each semester during the university, often costing students a considerable amount of money. What’s more, learning a new subject always needed to make strenuous efforts to become proficiency as well as review several times due to theoretical knowledge gained from books that people will be forgotten far easier. It seems that gaining knowledge from experience is a more appealing option for those who prefer to have a better experience, it is not necessary to spend time reviewing it several times.

Lastly, when it comes to knowledge variety, it is true that experience gathered in life provides individual guideline and wisdom to broaden human horizon. In contrast, books are the primary source as well as containing the experience gathered by generation to generation and their observation but the knowledge acquired from personal experience is limited by only a person. For those who emphasize reading more books to raise better basics to create frame in practice seems a reasonable option.

The paragraphs above mention three main differences between the knowledge gained from experience and books. Although it only trusts on solo experience as well as the lack of extensive source, considering the practical skilled acquired along with the bargain expense spent, the knowledge gained from experience is definitely a more sensible choice.