Nowadays, as incomes are growing, parents are more interestings in education which some people couldn’t get enough.. In the past, especially, people who lived in undeveloped countries couldn’t get enough education. So people are trying to learn and get some knowledge in current situations. But there are a lot of ways to study. Mainly, people learn through books and experiences. Then, what is a better method of learning?
First, accessibility is one of the important elements when choosing the method of studying. If it’s hard to access, users might not be able to use that method. In this part, books have great advantages. There are a lot of books published in the world. People can get books at the libraries and bookstores. In particular, people can borrow three books a day for free at the library. There are various books in the library. 200,000 books are published in English, and if the books people are looking for aren’t there, they can also request the books for free which is good for people who have low incomes. On the contrary, experience requires more investment of money than books. You could say that, life itself is an experience that people can learn from, through the things they do, but in general, people have to spend money to join another chance to experience something new. Therefore, books are better than experiences in this part.
Secondly, good learning must be efficient. Time is limited, and during this limited time, people want to get as much knowledge as possible. This means the method of learning should be efficient. Usually, it takes less than three hours to finish one book. Readers can absorb a writer’s experience in three hours of reading books such as essays. So reading books provides learning in a shorter time. Experience can also be efficient if people think time to experience is worth it. For example, lots of people say that an exchange student and working holiday abroad is worth it. But still, experience takes time and it’s hard to get much information in a short time. Like going to exchange students is spending more time but couldn’t get that much knowledge from the life than the book has. Also, as time is limited it’s impossible to experience everything. Books are saving time and learning more effectively than experiences.
Lastly, the type of lessons that can be learned from the method is also a big criteria for choosing the way of learning. In general, books give the public knowledge and information about the past, like historical facts. There are various things to be learned from books such as realizations and new values of life. These are the main lessons of learning through the book. On the other hand, experience opens one’s eyes especially to various peoples, places, and perspectives. And experience is correcting incorrect things and mistakes to not make it again. Thus, both books and experiences give different type of lessons but experience is more useful in this respect.
In conclusion, books and experiences both have pros and cons, and both ways are mandatory for learning so it’s hard to judge what is better but personally learning through the book should come first rather than experience. Experience is more worth it if you have gathered knowledge from books. But to me, I highly suggest learning books rather than experience.