which source of the knowledge is better? is it learning from books or learning from life experience
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Is knowledge gained from experience more important than the knowledge gained from books?
No; knowledge is knowledge howsoever it is gained. Knowledge gained from experience however is the most vivid hence people tend to place more importance on it. Experience is important obviously - but learning by experiencing is the worst form of learning. We are all allowed a limited number of experiences in our life so if we rely on experience to learn something we would learn very little. Knowledge gained through reason and reflection is the best because it allows us to comprehend our experience and thus to learn better and faster. Books should be used as a way to stimulate one’s own thoughts. They are a means to an end not an end in itself. They allow you to expand your base of knowledge by bringing into purview other’s experiences. Comparing their experiences with yours allows you to understand your own experiences better. If you consider another’s experiences and perspectives it helps to prevent being too rigid with your own point of view.
So experience by itself is no help in gaining knowledge; for reflection and comprehension of experience is important for knowledge. The boundary of experience is the present but knowledge pertains to the future - what has not yet happened; what is hidden. You have true knowledge only when you have the ability to grasp something before it takes shape. The primary use of experience is in acquisition of skills - for experience makes muscle memory - allowing you to become familiar and confident with your territory and finally it allows you to test your knowledge; for feedback gained by experience is useful in self-appraisal but that too only when we have the ability to assess the feedback correctly - by grasping its implications. But even here its boundary is circumscribed for skills do not allow you to deal with situations you are unfamiliar with.
So knowledge and experience are and should be mutually complimentary but learning process must seek to understand experience and and use that understanding as a base to transcend experience.
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Every source of knowledge is better and we should be learning from everything even a dog give us knowledge of honesty, there are many examples for that... What knowledge we get from books that we can not get from our life and what knowledge we get from life we can not get from books so both are better to learn and get knowledge. If your in 10th std or you passed the std the you may know the lesson in hindi " बडे भाईसाहब " in that lesson the writer of the lesson had sayed that the life experience is more important than the books knowledge., but I think both are important