It is said that "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?

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Books are our friends, as they broaden our
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minds
and increase our curiosity about something. But they can not be as great when it comes to experiments. Practical
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as well as bookish
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, if I talk about my middle school, teachers never conducted any experiments and assumed that we would be able to learn experiments without performing them because there are several things which are not present in the textbooks and can only come out if experimented. I personally never understood theories. I am a kind of person who needs to perform experiments to understand something. The problem is that even if we learn enough theories, we will not be able to explain them to the fullest
untill
up to, before the time
until
we do experiments. After experimenting something we can actually get the perfect idea of what the results are going to be like. Some students,
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me, are bad at learning and they could not grasp much
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from books.
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However they
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However, they
can understand quickly if something is
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practically
experimented. So, I think that
knowlege
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
knowledge
gained from experience is much more important than the
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gained from various book. The advantage of learning something by performing experiments is, we can remember them for a longer period of time, whereas from the bookish
knowledege
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
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, we will find out that we could hardly remember is for
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a few hours
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to be gained from experiments even take lesser time to complete
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compared
to gaining
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from the books. No doubt that books
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teach
us in a vast horizon, but I would say that some things are pointless to learn from book if we do not know how to use them in real life situations. In conclusion, I would like to say that basic
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gained could be gained from books, but to increase our thinking ability, handling real life situations,
knowledge
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gained from experience is much more helpful.

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