Compare and Contrast
It
has been said, “Not everything you learnt is contained in books.” That is to
say, we gain knowledge from everywhere. In this big world, there are lots of
things to learn, we can either read from the books or learn it from our
experience.
While
we are strolling in the library, we can find various books from history to astrology.
The books contain the knowledge of tens of thousands of people. We can gain
knowledge from the book. Math, Science, Psychology, we can find almost
everything that we can think of from the books, even how to cook. By reading
the books, we can learn what others have experience, because the things that
are written in the books are the very thing which the writer wants to tell the
readers. Therefore, we learn the knowledge that has been experience by others,
we are learning from their experience. There are some of things that we can’t
learn from life experience, such as calculus. This kind of hard subjects that
needs to be calculated carefully is rarely used in our lives, but we still need
to use it in some professional fields, such as science.
However,
we are the one who is going to practice the knowledge that we learn. We can
also gain knowledge from our daily lives. Reading a book may not be so necessary.
For example, a baby can neither read books nor understand what you tell him to
do. But careful the things you do, children will see, and learn. As what we
have learnt in the Confession by Augustine, he said that when he was an infant,
he cries when he has the desire for something, he screamed for it. And when he
finds out he can yell for his needs, he learned that he can tell people what he
needs by getting their attention. There’s another example of learning from
living experience. I’ve never seen my grandmother cooking with a recipe, but
she can always make a table of delicious food. I wonder why she can do it, and
she told me that, “The more times you cook the better they taste, and no recipe
is needed.” If the dishes this time are too salty, she will remember the amount
of salt that she has added and she will put less at the next time. This is what
we call experience. What is written in the book may not be the best way for us.
The taste of the author of the recipe may be different from us, so we need to
try again and again to see what’s the best thing.
In
my opinion, both learning from the book and gaining the knowledge for life
experience is important. Perhaps the best way is to combine our knowledge from
books and life experience. We can make what we read from the books into
practice to see if the knowledge fits us. It’s because that what we read from
the books is the experience of others, it may not work on us as perfectly as
the writer. Therefore, we can try to use the knowledge from what we read, and
if it fails, we can fix it and make it the right way that is suitable for us.
The most important is we learn therefore we live. It’s not a shame for us to have
failure, what matters the most is that we get better each time we fail. We
study more carefully from the book when we fail the test, and we make it right
the next time; we are more cautious of our lives when we make mistakes while
practicing some skills. Knowledge is everywhere, in the books and everywhere
around us.
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