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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?

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Books are our best companion and source of knowledge from our youth to adulthood. Our learning begins by reading books. Books open new horizons in front of us. But sometimes the most important and hardest lessons that we learn in
life
 comes from our participation in different situations. The things we learn in real
life
 can never be learnt through books. In my opinion, the knowledge we gather from our experiences is priceless and more important than anything else. There is no denying the fact, that learning from books in a school or university and learning for one’s own interest in highly important. Whenever someone
read
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reads
 books, it helps the reader to broaden their power of imagination
and introduce them new
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and introduce them to new
 ideas. Books increases our abstract thinking and helps us to analyse our thoughts in an effective manner. Though, books are important to raise our concepts about important subjects affecting our
life but
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life, but
 everyone’s
life
 is different from others and the most important lessons in
life
 cannot be read in books. It must be faced and learned by ourselves.
For example
, No one can teach us how to live or how to share our feelings and it must be experienced through our own experiences. The experiences we gather from our daily
life
, helps us to resolve our future problems. Many times, we learn from the stories that we hear from our friends or family members that have occurred in the past. In my opinion, books teach us a lot of
things but
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things, but
 there is a limit to what they teach. They can give us information or show us another person’s
experience but
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experience, but
 the lessons that we learn from our own experiences from childhood to adulthood, are the most important ones that we learn.
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