Which is more important for you in your life: knowledge from books you read, or personal experiences in reality?Please use details to explain your answer.
书和个人实践哪个是人们获取知识的主要途径,请简单阐述你的观点。
Books and experience are the main two channels for people to gain their knowledge. Each plays different roles for people. In my opinion, knowledge from experience is more important than that from books.
To begin with, experience can prove if the knowledge from books is true or false. Textbooks are very wonderful in teaching people essential principles. How does the world look like? What is the basic law of change of people and things? We can learn a lot through primary school, secondary school until university. However, people can only understand the really meaning of those from books and justify them if they are right through practices. A few hundred years ago, people learnt from textbooks that the earth was flat. However, navigators found that was wrong through observations and voyage.
Next, the knowledge from experience can improve and advance the world and our society. As books have limitation,they only teach us what people found in the past. The knowledge from the books is constrained to the certain conditions and environment. For example, mould and tools design for plastics industry, the university course only taught me very simple cases, most knowledge are obtained from various and complicated cases in my career.
Furthermore, there are a lot of new inventions and new products which could not be found from textbooks. Our society and world are developed through continuous practices, those knowledge, never found in books, such as Internet, e-business etc. are all developed through new practices.
Just as the saying is “The truth comes from practices and experience” , people are continually discovering new things and assessing the creditability of the knowledge written in books. The knowledge from experience helps us much more than those from books.