Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Do you agree or disagree?

We live in a globalized world where we have a lot of companies that requires knowledge and

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experience. Every day more people tend to

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study and the ones who will get a job easier are the ones who have a differential. I tend to agree that practical work can give the students the expertise and help them to grow as professional faster than the others who do not have greater practice.

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, practical skills prepare the students to deal with the real world. Through

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type of knowledge, the students will have the opportunity to familiarize with tools and equipment that will be a plus when they start a job and

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could increase their confidence once they know what they are doing and would have already practised what he is supposed to do.

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, students become greater expertise because when they do something with their own hand they remember better. Usually is much easier to forget when we learn only through concepts than when we practice and simulate facts in the day today. Take Brazil as an example, a lot of universities have

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unior company where the students have to face several issues and apply their theory to solve the problems.

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but not least, learning trough practice promote experimental learning and allow them to participate more actively. There are more chances to become bored when only learn only facts. It is

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worth identifying that practical work is the application of theory. To sum up, as I see it, practical learning is an essential part of the student’s lives and they benefited from it. Learning facts will always be important because

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heory is a set of interrelated concepts, definitions, and propositions that explains or predict events or situations by specifying relations among variables, while practical skills give the students the opportunity to learn quickly and to solve the problems they probably will face in the future when they will be working in an actual company.