Toefl essay_topic 4: It has been said, "Not everything that is learned is contained in books."...
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I would like to emphasize on the present case of the students who are really intelligent and studious.the knowledge as we all know is power and the ability to show your potentials.so here i go with a beautiful note on how the knowledge gained from books is different from the experiences.
Yes, I support the topic given to me as it is more important to have a bookish knowledge rather than the experiences. I can specialize giving a very good example of my friend. When I was in school, I had a friend who seemed to be very intelligent than any one else in the class and his participation in class. He was also rewarded by our principle for his intelligence. Unfortunately he'd failed the term exam and could not give any reason for his failure. This was just because he had no knowledge of book.
I believe that a person may be a born intelligent but without proper education he maynot succeed and the complete education one can gain is only through the books. This helps us to refer very easily wherever,whenever neccesary. Onthe context one can gain more knowledge through experiences but ultimately those are to ber structured in a proper way using the proper material further for any presentations which recommend many techical words.
So in brief, I conclude that the one who really want to be intelligent and upcomine in all aspects should get experience and share that by discovering many facts by exploring many books.
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Many people have said that not everything that is learned is contained in books, while many people also say that we get most of our knowledge from books. In my point of view, the latter one is as important as, if not more important than the former one, Although not everything is contained in books, we have to learn most of the things in books. Among countless reasons, which influence the former one, I explore the most conspicuous aspects as follows:
The main reason I agree with the argument is that knowledge contained in books is systematic. As we know, almost all the books are the children of the marriage of the author’s thought with the real world. In order to express themselves, they surely use a very systematic structure to form a book, which have a specific note of their thought and experiences. With the systematic structure, we can learn things gradually, by our own pace and we need not to worry that if we had miss some of the important details because systematic structure never drop the essential points. What we only need to do is follow the instructions directed by the author and grasp the content by ourselves’ consideration.
There is another reason that deserve some words here, however, is that learning by reading books is an efficient way of accumulating knowledge. In ancient world, no books existed, and people should realize the world by exploring everything by themselves. This method apparently takes too much time and energy. But with the ready-made knowledge provided by the books put in front of us, why not take on it directly? It will save us a lot of time to take advantages of others’ thought and experiences than we explore them by ourselves.
It would not be too kindly disposed to the idea that not learning knowledge in books is not important. Of course, gaining knowledge from experience is not without advantages. Because experiencing the life by oneself would be more impressive and could effect you for a lifetime. Such examples are not rate in our personal life.
In a word, to choose way of gaining knowledge is something of a dilemma to public because they sometimes are confused by the seemingly good qualities of learning by experiences, but neglect the most genuinely good aspect of learning by reading. For the reasons presented above, I strongly commit to the notion to by reading, not by experiences.
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It has been said, ”Not everything that is learned from books”. This is true, since we cannot know everything from a book. or the other books. In my point of view, knowledge gained from books is more important than knowledge gained from experience for two main reasons as follows:
First of all, the reason of the importance is that the resource of knowledge from books is more wide and various than those of knowledge from experience. It can make us fit the necessary of the variety of life and work. Those knowledge can be acquired from books written by our other persons who may be mostly our predecessors. In the fact, it is impossible for us to obtain all knowledge through our practices. When we are still students of school, we must study and read our textbooks or other books to get knowledge in our major or relative fields although we have to do some experiences in the lab sometimes.
The Second reason for the importance in gaining knowledge from books is that we can obtain it more quickly and more accurately than from our experience. We can spend very short time and less energy to obtain many knowledge which is from books written by other people who maybe had probably spend much time even their lifetime to make experiences and write books. As a student, one of us can study and know many knowledge which is concerned with many fields in one semester or one year.
Finally, the importance for obtaining knowledge from books lies on the obvious fact that it can save much money for us If we get all knowledge only from our practices, how much money must be taken can not be known. For example, in order to get knowledge about one place though our practice , we have to spent money to go there by bus or other ways and spent money to live and stay there if it is necessary. On the other hand, we can only spend less money to obtain knowledge about there by buying and reading one book about there. Of course, knowledge gained from experience is also important for the reliability of knowledge must be tested and verified by experience. All of knowledge, which we study from books, is actually from other persons’ experience indirectly or directly. We have no reason to refuse accumulating knowledge though our experience and writing down as books and articles for our offspring or other persons to study and obtain them later.
But it is no doubt that we have infinitely chance and time to get all knowledge from our own practice. What we can do is get our necessary knowledge from books in our limited money and time and energy. Reading books is the more important way to obtain knowledge than making experience.
