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Originally Posted by MightyMacbeth

sometimes books are better..

say for example, I am reading a book called "The crusades and the holly land", now how can I get that info from somewhere else? experince?

so there is different situations really..

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- Yes i agree
ofcourse You cant get history from experience
its obvious

Originally Posted by Bullpup_seven

I am not saying that books are bad.

I personally don't enjoy reading books . And that is how i think about books.

But - when you face a choice of learning something new by book or experience and all things being equall, experience is a better teacher .
When your active you understand things easily and efficiently - you are able to remeber things more by experience. When your reading a book you just go trough sometimes with out understanding.

You're still missing one very important factor, the person. No heart beats the same.

Number Seven
IF (and again I say ) IF you really hate books then I really feel sorry for you. Books are not JUST for learning knowledge.

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be the first man on the moon and be able to be THE FIRST MAN to place his footprints in the millennial old dust of it's surface? How about the thought of going through a wormhole in space and observing the strange and wondrous intermingling of colors fading to grey? How bout taking a raft trip down the Mississippi with Huck Finn?

I could sit here for the next 365 days and come up with all sorts of possibilities for stimulation of the human mind and spirit and EVERY SINGLE one of them would be straight out of a book. Not one single book would be of a technical or conventional "text" book for learning. In my library, books are categorised by Science Fiction, Western and Other. Whether it's a story straight out of someone's fertile imagination or an autobiography about one of the world's leading steel magnates, every single word out of books are grist for the imagination.

I could also sit here for the next thousand years and come up with ideas and possibilities straight out of my own fertile imagination.

When you lose the love of reading, you have just shut out an entire world of imagination, wonder, travel, experience, adventure and just plain fun.
I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

I have made virtually 10,000 friends in my life and have never been any closer to them than the printed word on a page of a book.

Don't close the door of imagination - books are the door to a well rounded and sound mind and to a whole new world of wonder.

My library has over 3,000 books in it.

The problem with your Argument BP_7 is you can't possibly expirence everything.

History is the best example. You can't expirence history. You can re-create it after consulting books, but you cannot expirence it. So in that aspect, Books are the only too gain knowledge.


Now I agree, knowledge gained from expirence is terrific, but if that is the only way you learn, then you will have limitations. You will most likely learn only enough to survive or do things basically. Without consulting books, or the internet, your education and expirence can only go so far. Im sure everyone can think of many eamples of that.

Originally Posted by Marinerhodes

I fall into the autodidadidia....what he said. Anyway, Many things I have done in life are due to learning by experience. Most times though I have read or had some kind of instruction before going through with the 'experience'.

Don't automatically assume that because Joe Schmoe made it look easy that it really is. He can maybe do math in his head and cut the wood by eye. Well he more than likely learned it in a book AND by experience. Don't cut the book smarts short.

besides, from what I understand, book smarts gets you women, but I can't personally say that's true.

Originally Posted by Chief Bones

Don't close the door of imagination - books are the door to a well rounded and sound mind and to a whole new world of wonder.

I agree with that and everything else in that post, Chief. It's hard for me to go a whole day with out reading for at least an hour or more.

As Chief Bones said earlier, books is just another great source for enlightenment..

True that I might not read books alot, but it depends on what it is. Do i have an interest in the topic? am I motivated? etc..

Also, I personally like someone to read me the book, that way, I could say for example ask and get to know more, but still, thats from a book..

Then when you develop your skills, and read more than one time, you can feel that you are actually learning .