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It Has Been Said, “Not Everything that Is Learned Is Contained in Books.”

It Has Been Said, "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?


Sample 1: It Has Been Said, “Not Everything that Is Learned Is Contained in Books.”

“Experience is the best teacher” is an old cliché, but I agree with it. We can learn a lot of important things from books, but the most important lessons in life come from our own experiences. Throughout the different stages of life, from primary school to university to adulthood, experience teaches us many skills we need for life.

As children in primary school, we learn facts and information from books, but that is not all we learn in school. On the playground, we learn how to make friends. In our class work, we learn how it feels to succeed and what we do when we fail. We start to learn about the things we like to do and the things we don’t. We don’t learn these things from books but from our experiences with our friends and classmates.

In our university classes, we learn a lot of information and skills we will need for our future careers, but we also learn a lot that is not in our textbooks. In our daily lives, both in class and out of class, we learn to make decisions for ourselves. We learn to take on responsibilities. We learn to get along with our classmates, our roommates, and our workmates. Our successes and failures help us develop skills we will need in our adult lives. They are skills that no book can teach us.

Throughout our adulthood, experience remains a constant teacher. We may continue to read or take classes for professional development. However, our experiences at work, at home, and with our friends teach us more. The triumphs and disasters of our lives teach us how to improve our careers and also how to improve our relationships, and how to be the person each one of us wants to be.

Books teach us a lot, but there is a limit to what they teach. They can give us information or show us another person’s experiences. These are valuable things, but the lessons we learn from our own experiences, from childhood through adulthood, are the most important ones we learn.

Sample 2: It Has Been Said, “Not Everything that Is Learned Is Contained in Books.”

People are learning and practising throughout their entire lives. I believe that life experience and practice are the basic reasons of humankind’s evolution. However, in my opinion, knowledge gained from books plays a very important role in modern life.

The most obviously important advantage of books is that they hold all knowledge gained by previous generations. People write books about their discoveries and inventions, which are gained through practice and experience. This knowledge is accumulated in books that are passed from generation to generation. So, basically, people get all their knowledge about previous achievements from books, analyze them and then, according to their experience and new data, write new books. In this case, books are the holders of humankind’s experience.

For example, in old times, people thought that the Earth was flat. It was concluded from observations and studies. However, the next generations, using the experience of their ancestors, proved that the Earth was round.

Personally, I think that books are very important because they are able to give people basic and fundamental knowledge. Books store history, important events and discoveries. Without them, it is difficult and sometimes impossible to move forward and make new discoveries and inventions.

To summarize, I think a person should take basic knowledge from books because it will help him to make his own inventions, conclusions and discoveries. Only by using both books and one’s experience can one move forward.

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