Experience Is the Best Teacher....?

Question

agree or disagree.... why??...star if you agree

thanx for your time :)

Answer 1

It's the best - the only problem is so many of us are such lousy students a lot of the time. Have you made made the same mistake over and over again? I have.
AA has a definition of "insanity": doing the same thing but expecting a different result.
I've been there, for sure.
The only other way, I'd say, that we can learn the REALLY important things is from example: good example AND bad. But I suppose it could be argued that the examples we see/learn from are part of our experience.

Answer 2

Hi Angel,
Experience is an excellent teacher but there are so many methods of learning, I think it depends on the subject, the teacher and the pupil.
Subject: The knowledge gained through 'reading', 'studying' or being taught by a teacher is experience. Some subjects can be learned adequately from being taught. Mathematics, science, religion, philosophy, psychology ... yes experience helps but a teacher and books will outline the various methods, systems, procedures, that experience could not define. I could not, for instance, have learned algebra from experience. Some subjects are best learned in a classroom environment.
Teacher: A skilled teacher knows how to guide, encourage and inspire. Some teachers aren't able to get their knowledge across very skillfully in which case the pupil might be left thinking he/she is inept when it is actually the teacher who is incompetent.
Pupil: How does the pupil learn from experience? Might they make the same mistakes over and over without proper guidance. Will they use their initiative and find innovative ways around problems? Some people find the best way to learn is through doing. Others need to be told.
What we learn through experience is more probably lasting than that acquired through reading because it is first-hand knowledge. We can learn through our own experience and partly through other people's experience. A child might not stop playing with fire till he burns his fingers. He learns from his own experience.
Some people are self-taught in many subjects and prefer this way of learning; I am one of them.
Finally back to subjects and I think that when it comes to mechanics, carpentry, nursing etc. experience is a very very good teacher. Books cannot be a substitute for the real thing.
Polly

Answer 3

Ok, I agree with you in a way:experiences do teach us some things but I must say, it is mistakes that teach us more. When you experience something,either rght or wrong, you just learn how it feels like to do something but when you make a mistake, you learn what you did wrong and if you know what you did wrong then only it is a mistake otherwise it is just an experience. But if you think about it, mistakes and experiences are related. They are almost like the same thing because a mistake is an experience and experiences do have mistakes....so which one would you agree on when they're both almost the same thing

Anyway, I still agree with you because like I said a mistake is an experience so here's a star for you!

Answer 4

Both agree and disagree..

Experience gives you the life time lesson to be remember. e.g. Fire burns. Electricity Kills.
Also some times seeing the others experience any thing of this sort we can infer and need not experience ourself

othe the other hand . One has to experience somethings otherwise his life will remain hollow and waste.. e.g. Love, Kiss, Sex. Courage, Adenture,

the best of all will be the God, Meditation, Spirityuality..

Here others' experiences do not count.

Answer 5

Yes - unless you can find a good Tibettan Buddhist monk. But some people are slow learners, and some seem unwilling or unable to learn from anything at all. Look at George and those holding him up. And the poor Americans - living without a community medical scheme in the richest country on earth - and much more besides! Poor sods.

Answer 6

Good question... it's a bit of a double-edged sword, if you ask me. I believe that knowledge is the best teacher. Sure as heck, I'm gonna experience all I can in life, but I don't quite feel it necessary to stick a needle full of heroin in my arm or commit murder "just to know what it's like." By far, when you experience things, you understand them to a greater fullness, but again, I have to use my judgement at some point to not experience certain things.

Answer 7

Probably, Finding Out For Yourself is Better, this May In Fact Be Personal Experience.

Answer 8

Aside from our teacher in schools. One of the best teacher in life is the experience of a person has undergone. Naturally, when a person does this experience it is not only inculcated in his mind but more so it remains as a past experience. Being as such we are always reminded of the past experiences. If for example we made a mistake in the past, this serves as guiding force for us to do better. We make it a point not to do it since this give as a vital mark or warning in our lives.

If it is a good experience we tend to do better than the old experience. In other words we learn from our experiences. Therefore these experience brings up as a mentor for a better life.

Answer 9

It is obviously not true. Experience does not change many people with ingrained behavior and thought processes. Maybe the experience of touching a hot stove will help me learn not to, but for more complex choices experience doesn't count for much. I am very experienced and still quite stupid when it comes to living.

Answer 10

I definitely agree that. With first hand experience you can learn things that you couldn't or possibly refused to before. It's like your parents telling you not to make a bad decision but you didn't want to listen cause you thought you were right. And in the end they might have been correct, but the only way you learned what was right was through your experience.