knowledge from book and knowledge from experience.

I think really both are useful and cannot really exist without the other. I mean we can learn from books, we can learn from practical experience, but without both, we find ourselves slightly weaker to say the very least. Therefore sometimes we can just learn out of a book, but however, we need to apply that to a practical field every now and again. Then again, we need to look up certain things so we do not bungle what we are doing in a practical manner. After all, we can't just be thrown out in the deep end and expect to know what we are doing. Therefore, some learning from books is an essential thing to learn are way. So both of them go hand in hand, for a more solid knowledge base.

I believe too that there are things best taught through experience. For example you have a book about operating a heart disease, do you think you will be able to know how it was in real life? You have to experience it to know it. In love, there's no book that will be able to teach you how to react in love, may it be a happy or sad thing. You have to experience in order to know. So that applies, practical experience of things can never really found in a book. There may be writings about things but experience teach you in a more different and real way.

Both are equally important. In my chosen field, firefighting, I am constantly telling my crew that you can never learn enough. I also tell them that while I have learned technical knowledge in classrooms and with hands-on training, I have learned just as much out on an incident. But there is a third element to it that I always point out to the new ones coming into the department. About once a month we all get together to have a bbq, and I have learned just as much in that setting, from sitting around with the ones that have been doing it longer than I have, and have more experience. From listening to them tell stories of fires they have been on and what went right/wrong or could have been done better. I have 14 years doing wildland firefighting, but I still go to the academies twice a year. I am now to a point where I will be getting my instructor certification. But gaining knowledge of any kind should be done on a daily basis.

Knowledge is power...no matter how one learns it. One can look at it in another way. A picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand words is worth a thousand experiences. A thousand experiences is worth...a PERSONAL experience. Nothing in life can prepare you more, than having a personal experience. The knowledge you gain from it will stay with you forever. Wisdom teaches you how to use that gainful knowledge, effectively. However, pages in a book will only reside in your temporary memory and the knowledge that you gain from it over time, will slowly fade into obscurity. Cheers; commanderxo

The basic knowledge we get come from books. We learn how to read and write in school. But the expertise, comes from years of experience. There are things that we learn from experience that is not taught at schools. So I don't limit my 4 year old son to the confines of his classroom. We travel to different places with him. We went to the zoo for him to have first hand experience of the animals he sees on his books. Learning is a continuous process. It doesn't stop even if we grow old.

you can learn evrything from a book but the best teaching is life. What ever you learn of life evry situation is different and evry person experienced it in his own way, cause evryone is different. Sometimes there are now answers or the answer is not fulfilling for you. you can not find it in a book or any could tell you what the best answer is. You have to do it all by yourselff. Thats life.

I've often heard the expression, "I'm not book-smart... I'm street-smart!" And then the librarian's retort which is, "I'm not REALLY smart... I'm fake-smart!" I think that real experience is invaluable, and there are some things you're never going to be learn from a book. But at the same time... don't discount book smarts. Books can be powerful teachers, and the people who read books and experience are always going to be one step ahead of the people who only experience.

both books and experience give us knowledge.books give us theoretical knowledge.they provide us information about certain things.experience teaches us emotional and mental wisdom.from our own reactions and actions,we learn a lot of things.

I really don't think that either book knowledge or experience that is based on knowledge is more important. I actually tend to think that our knowledge on any subject that we face in our lives would not be complete without a mixture of the two types of experience. For example, a nurse does have to spend time in the classroom to know the basics of nursing, but you would never want to be the charge of a nurse that has never had hands on experience with a patient.

I think it should go hand in hand. There is no doubt that experience is the best teacher. But I think it's better to make sound and informed decisions that to just make a decision based on gut-feelings.

From books we learn science. Not ust the rocks and trees science but many sciences. What we don't, we can't learn from books is applied science. We can read the stove is hot, we can even read that the stove is hot enough to burn us, yet until we have experienced the heat and potential burn we have no concept of what hot is...this is science and the application to result, this result being a sense of heat, a burn and possibly a blister. With the advent of the blister the science has gone a step farther. Now we understand hot, we understand degrees of hot and we understand that hot can be harmful to us even after the initial event. Everything we learn has an application and it's in these applications true understanding begins.

I think that knowledge from a book can help you get ready for something you experience in life. I love to read helpful material.

Experience really is the best teacher. I mean someone can learn something from a book, but when it comes down to doing it, its a different. Things arent gonna go the way you thought. Books do guide us though. Give us an idea on HOW to do something. At the end of the day, we do get the experience by doing it anyway.