How do U relate learning by personal experience to learning from reading?Is the knowledge you derive from ->

Question

the latter as valuable, less valuable or, more valuable than the former kind of experience. Pls elaborate as you make the case or one or more of the options I have listed.

Answer 1

I think that reading about things can provide other insight to experience, but experience has its own special place in one's life. You can talk about 'your own' experience, and make it immediate and real to you, and those close to you.

Answer 2

Knowledge by reading is a valuable source and a great beginning but there is nothing that drives home the point or understanding as true experience where you can actually learn from your senses and experience as opposed to an interpreted version of the same scenario.

Answer 3

The incorporation of information is akin to assembling a puzzle. Where the pieces were, and how they came to you is mostly unimportant. Each piece of valid information is of its own intrinsic value regardless of its source and should be treated as such. The source can provide details about the validity and relevancy of the information, but in that regard is the extent of the sources value.

An example of source validity: The subject is Stonehenge. What source is best?

1. A child's drawing from a recent visit
2. A photograph from 60 years ago
3. A verbal description.

Each of these sources is incomplete. Yet each contains information that the others do not.

Answer 4

nothing is as valuable as hands on experiance. you cannot get as much experience from a book or a classroom as you can from someone that has been doing it for years. the old timers may be able to learn from you also but they have so much to give you

Answer 5

I relate better by reading , this gets retained in my memory better, and then I think about what of have learnt from the book while having a personal experience. Some people learn better by hands on, visual, physical etc. Depends on your makeup.

Answer 6

nothing can take the place of experience. We are here to learn by doing and true knowledge can only be attained that way. If you get all your knowledge from books you are reading someone else's watered down version of truth. Eventually you need to experience it yourself so that you can really know it.

Answer 7

Anything I experience IS "personal experience" including reading.
And, just to appease you, personal experience is the key to all of life!
Learning from the experiences of others, say through reading about them, etc... is great, but one cannot mold their own paths and Becoming without learning from their own Being.

Answer 8

hands on experience always will teach you better then just reading it from a book. when you actually can experience it then just reading about it. A doctor can read how a surgery can be formed, but until actually experiencing the precedure in which it must be done. he will not learn how until the experience is performed. for example.

Answer 9

Experiential knowledge is much much more than any other knowledge. Indian Philosophers do make a distinction between knowledge that is simply cognitive, and experiential, though experience here means something entirely different.

Answer 10

They are two different kinds of learning. You read to understand the purpose of something and you experience to understand its practical nature.