It has been said, “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?

It is a well known saying that “The pen is mightier than sword”. Saying like

this

try to explain that books contain great

knowledge

or you can achieve great wisdom by reading books. Of course, the books impart

lot

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lots

of

wisdom but there is

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wisdom, but there is

certain amount

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a certain amount

of

knowledge

that needs to be obtained by experiments. In the following essay I would be discussing about the same. In our system of education we start fundamentally

by

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with

books. We see the pictures of the objects in the books, we start to read with the help of books, we start writing in the books.

Knowledge

gained by the reading, writing and learning from the

books forms

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books, forms

the base for our

further

education and learning. Without

this

we cannot imagine any other design or structure which would be suitable for the education system.

In contrast

to

this

, not everything can be learnt by reading the books. Imagine someone who wants to pursue music only keeps on reading a book about how to play an

instrument but

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instrument, but

not trying the hands on the instrument itself. He will never form any melody or improvise any of his

knowledge

. It is said that “practice makes the man perfect” and in order to practice, you must make keep the books aside and experience the real thing. A soldier at war might learn how to shoot by reading about it, but when he goes to fight in the battlefield number of situation will arise about which he read nothing in the book and

then

his chances of surviving will depend only on what he had learnt from his experience and past mistakes. As someone pursuing a career in science, I myself believe that you need

knowledge

from the experience

in addition

to the

knowledge

from the books to succeed in life.