Topic 8 - book or experience - Bui Nhung

In our life, there are a lot of sources for us to get knowledge such as books and experience. Each of them has their particular advantages. In my opinion, what we can gain from books is more importance than those from our experiencing.

First and foremost, reading documents provides us with various vital guidelines to direct what we experienced. Academic information from books gives us basics of making decision in professional work. Through reading paperwork, we know the overview or insights of our major, theories and opinions of experts who we can not meet face to face, what the requirements of our job are or anything that can be revealed by asking other people. Furthermore, in our daily life, our activities are influenced by what we read. For example, fairy-tales or history stories in books supply us morality standard and right behaviors which lead us to become a good person. More simply, if we do not know how to cook a disk we can take the recipe and instructions from a book.

Secondly, it can not be denied that information in books is organized more scientific and creditable that that from experience. In reality, books are usually written by professionals. They include the cream of the wise knowledge of human beings for generations. More importantly, they are also certified by a panel of judges before published. On the contrary, knowledge from practice usually goes form our own narrow sight that easily leads us to catch part of the whole view and negative or subjective actions. It should be noted that information of documents is arranged in order. It is very easy for us to take a broader view. Moreover, it also helps us save lots of time to get a huge amount of knowledge. Without books, we may lost many working experience years to know these information or may be never know about them.

Finally, gaining knowledge in books teaches us some important skills while experience can not. Books give us different aspects or opposite opinion on a particular subject. Frequently, the ideas in books are hidden. So, reading books helps our logical mindset, analytical skill and critical thinking skill be sharpened. In other words, experience can teach us some things like how to be happy or sad, how to get lessons after experiencing a failure, how to improve relationship and how to do a work after practicing many times... They are the fundamentals for us to just survive. It is obvious that it very easy for us to gain them. But if we want to go beyond our limitation, we need other extraordinary skills which are only provided by books.

All in all, books are considered as a more important source that experience. The guidelines, credit of books and what skills we can learn from books have strongly supported my opinion.