My essay: "Not everything that is learned is contained in books."

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?

Not everything that is learned is contained in books. In fact there are many ways and many tools that we can use to learn things for example our experience, audio-visual materials and also from other people.

Living daily life and trying new experiences is the best way to learn something because what you are experiencing will remain in your memory longer than if you learn the same thing by reading it on a book. In fact your brain learn every steps to achieve a certain result. For example, if you don’t know how to ride a bike you can read it on a book, but the first time that you’ll ride a bike you’ll probably fall down because you’ve only understand how to do it but you’ve never experienced it by yourself. At the contrary, if you take your bike and you try again and again at the end you’ll be able to ride it because your brain will have learned the right way to move your body.

Our audiovisual memory is very important to help us to remember things. There are people that have one kind of memory more developed than the other but it’s sure that audio-visual experiences are strong and they last long in our mind. What we read in books develops our capacity to record the information that the writer is giving to us but when we see something with our eyes or we hear something with our ears, we experience it personally. For example if you read a book about the World War, it describes guns, soldiers uniforms, battles and the reader can imagine all these things, but if he sees a film or a documentary on the World War, probably he will understand better how guns and uniforms were made and the way in which battles really took place and perhaps he will understand that the idea that it was made from books was wrong or inexact.

With their actions, their words, their choices, people that surround us daily teach us lots of practical and theoretical notions that we could never know by books. My mother, for example, can teach me the best and the fastest way to make a cake: I can watch her doing the cake step by step and after I can try by myself. A book says only the list of ingredients and the steps to make the cake but maybe the result will be worse that the same cake made by my mother.

In conclusion, I’d like to rephrase the starting statement, infect I would prefer to say “only something that is learned is contained in book”. Books are a precious resource for improving our knowledge because there are things that we learn through the books we could never learn in other ways but also the contrary it’s true because in our life we have other ways to learn lots of things without reading them on books.

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