Question

Diary entry on blind school experience

Answer 1

Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it.[1] Terms in philosophy such as "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge" are used to refer to knowledge based on experience. A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as an expert. The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning.

The interrogation of experience has a long term tradition in continental philosophy. Experience plays an important role in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. The German term Erfahrung, often translated into English as "experience", has a slightly different implication, connoting the coherency of life's experiences.

Answer 2

10th April 2007                            

10:15 pm

Dear Diary,

Today I visited a blind school as a part of my social service and moral education class. I was very excited to visit such students and was curious to know about them. It was when we reached there that I found that the children were the same as we are. They were very sweet, helping and loving children. They told us as to how they live with each other in the school. They were very friendly with us. They also sang for us and said thanks for our visit. I liked their company very much and I've planned to visit them more often.

Amrita