TOEFL® essay sample: Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience...

[Kimibryant]

It should be acknowledged that books provide all kinds of resources of knowledges one needs, and learning from reading books is definitely a efficient way to gain a vast amount of information in short times. To be specific, as is well known to all, some theoris, formula and definations of physical and mathsmatics are obviously significant to be learned first from books before you start any kind of research, on the other hand, in the history and sociology courses, the facts in the development of human beings and the professional analyse of society have to be acquired by reading, which serves as the tradition but main way to absorb knowledges. In this sense, only through a great deal of reading can we achieve the objective that opens our mind and enrichs our spiritual world.

However, learing from experience is absolutely indispensable aspect to form a well-balanced education system. The ultimate purpose of education is cultivating a person to be knowledgable as well as skillful. Gaining knowledges for its own sake is easily lost in the sea of knowledges. To know how to solve the pratical problem by using knowledge should be the most valuable purpose for every student. Experience, no matter it is a successful and bright process or painful failure and backset, could provide a precious oppotunity to check whether the theory is currect or not, and more important, mixing the previous knowledges and pratical experience provides you a balanced education.

To conclustion, learning from books or experience are not mutually exclusive, and on the contrast, they are indispensable supplement for each other. So for any student, gaining as much as possible knowledges from books will be helpful to strengthen one's education foundation, and at the same time, learning from experience will provide necessary pratical and usful process of using knowledges and solving problem to add to the education system.

(it's just a practise, and i did not write the frist paragraph... )

[Amitgoyal_Ec]

Hi,

The comments regarding this essay is that you should be more aware of what actually is being asked in the topic.

Your essay concentrates more about learning rather than giving your comments on what was asked.

So, be specific!