托福大作文185篇分类整理范文17--经验.doc

Topic: 4There are two main channels for people to learn knowledge from books and from experience.Generally, knowledge gained from books is theoretical, that gained from experience is practical. Itis difficult to answer which is more important to we people. It depends on the phases and eventsof our learning. Knowledge learned from books is instructive, which perhaps cannot learn directlyfrom experience. We often hear thunders and see lightning in the sky, and we can easily find thatlightning will be seen sooner than sound will be heard. According to our experience alone, wecannot tell why it had happened. But when we learn some physics in textbooks, we will find theanswer clearly that because light travels faster than sound does, it takes less time for light to travelthe same distance than for sound. Therefore, book knowledge can inform us some useful theoriesthat can give us general ideas and help us understand the real phenomenon better.In turn, practice knowledge check out the theories gained from books. There is an old Chinesesaying that practice is the only criterion of inspecting the truth. So not all knowledge from books iscredible, even false. When Aristotle wrote in his transcripts that the earth is the center of ourplanets, no one doubts this for centuries. However, when Galileo read about it, he did not suspectit at first, but when he made some observation and research, he found it is not the truth. Thencomes the new theory Sun center theory.In our daily life, we can learn much information from practice. To learn swimming, it is useless tobe absorbed in reading skills written in books. Only when you learn it in a swimming pool, can youmake it. There are still a lot of things you must learn from your own experience, such as driving acar, riding a bicycle, operating a machine. And the most important is that it is often easier learnknowledge from practice than from books. As far as the average people are concerned, it isnatural to learn from experience. Primitive people learned skills hand by hand which is the waythey were handed down from one generation to another.Modern people also learn things in practice. In workshops, leading workers teach apprenticescarefully; in activity clubs, teachers teach youngsters to be familiar with their hobbies. It isobvious that all of things considered knowledge gained from practice is more close and direct thanfrom the books.Therefore, two kinds of knowledge has importance. For research people , knowledge from booksis more important, while for our average people, knowledge from practice is more important. Asstudents, we must first learn knowledge from books well, and at the same time we must have thegood sense to tell from what is right and what is wrong.(Essay ID: 76 . Sample essay provided by Erin Billy of www.TestM)Topic: 4We gain our knowledge about the world and our life from two sources: from experience and frombooks. These two resources are both important, but which of them is more important?Knowledge from books forms a very important part of our knowledge structure. In schools andcolleges, we learn knowledge which is fundamental to our future career. We learn knowledgefrom books in order to make our contributions to this society in the future. A student learnsmathematic equations and other scientific knowledge and become a scientist or engineer. We willbe illiterate and ignorant without learning knowledge from books. Moreover, we acquireknowledge about life and the world by reading books, magazines and newspapers. This is alsovery important as we cannot experience everything all by ourselves. Therefore books are a veryimportant source of knowledge.On the other hand, we cant learn everything from a book. “Experience is the best teacher” is anold clich, but I agree with it. The most important, and sometimes the hardest, lessons we learn inlife come from our participation in situations. We learn how to get along with others or how tohave self-respect from our experience, not from books. We cannot learn emotional feelings, suchas love and care, through books; they come from our real life experience. Kno wledge fromexperience is also a very important supplement to knowledge from books.Needless to say both learning sources, books and experience, are very important to us. But in myopinion knowledge from experience is more important, because without knowledge fromexperience, it is impossible to get a real understanding of knowledge from books, and how toapply this knowledge to real world situations.(Essay ID: 77 )Topic: 38I disagree wholeheartedly that learning about the past has no value for those of us living in thepresent. In fact, the definition of learning includes the idea of an accumulation of experiencesfrom the past. Learning can only take place if we make an association between things that havehappened in the past or between something in the past and something that we predict will happenin the future. All knowledge that we acquire as we grow is from the past- language, customs,academic subjects, and so on. While it may be helpful sometimes to be able to overlook previousknowledge in order to avoid the constraint conformity, the vast majority of knowledge that welearn is a huge boost-imagine if each of us had to discover by ourselves that 2 + 2 = 4! So, in avery real sense, all learning depends on past events.We are only able to live in this world with our current standard of living because we have learnedfrom the past. We receive knowledge from the past and we are able to use it and improve it. Weexamine our actions in the past and we make judgments about what was right and what waswrong. Then, it is hoped, we will attempt to avoid those same mistakes again. For example, one ofthe great mistakes all over the world has been depriving women and the disempowered classesstatus in society and many industrialized and developing countries all over the world areattempting to avoid such mistakes both in the present and in the future.Furthermore, all of the knowledge that we have today is a result of all the work of ourpredecessors. The ancient Greeks developed geometry, which helped other European scientistsanalyze the solar system, which in turn gave us a new understanding of our place in the universe.The great majority of technology today depends directly on several thousands of years of work ofpast thinkers. To ignore the knowledge of the past would be to throw away five thousand years ofhistory and experience.There is, however, some seemingly small, but important value to ignoring the past. It is often thecase that history or tradition has the effect of constraining our thought in the present and manyimportant philosophical and scientific breakthroughs have only been possible as a direct result ofignoring the past. The past, in a sense, can blind us to the truth, we can become bound bytradition. For example, at one time, leading thinkers in Europe thought that the Earth was at thecenter of the universe and those who disagreed were persecuted as heretics, even Copernicus,who we now know was correct about his heliocentric model of the Solar System. However,scientists were eventually able to break from the past and accept the new model of the universe.In short, learning from and analyzing the past has enormous value for us and life as we know it onEarth today would not be possible without the benefit of thousands of years of history andaccumulated knowledge. It is important, however, to ignore the past so that we can make a stepforward, and such free thinking should be encouraged, although not at the expense of pastknowledge. Learning from the past is something like learning from our parents- in most cases, theirpast helps us have a better future, but there are times when we need to make a break from thepast and make a bold step into an unknown future.(Essay ID: 122 . Sample essay provided by Erin Billy of www.TestM)Topic: 63Some people assume that most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time willbecome valuable lessons for the future. I agree with it. In my opinion, most difficult experienceswe go through now will help develop our personalities, such as persistence, independence andconfidence, which are most valuable for our future.Persistence is the first lesson most difficult experiences will teach us. When I was a little girl,teachers and parents always taught me that if you want to succeed in our future, then you mustlearn how to keep ourselves persisting on our goals. From that time, I know no matter what kindof dreams I hold, I must persist in realizing them. For me, entering a university is a very goodexample. During my high school, I felt math was the most difficult subject for me. I almost gaveup my dreams because of my poor math scores. However my mom asked me not to give up myplan and encourage me to keep going on. Finally I succeeded in entering a prestigious university.After entering the university, I learned my second lesson - independence. It was a really difficulttime for me because I was never far away from my parents for such a long time, whats more, Ineed to take care of myself not only about living conditions but also about my study. At the firstperiod I really didnt know how to adapt myself into the new environment, it was no surprise that Igot lost during that time. Luckily, I have my parents and friends encouragement to help me gothrough that quite difficult time. Now I am working in Singapore and I think what makes me getused to this fast society is due to my colleges experiences. I believe that I will become moreindependent than before.Building enough confidence is another lesson the difficult experiences teaches me. Not everyoneis born to be confident. What helps me build my confidence is also through most failures I wentthrough. There is an old saying failure is the mother of success. Yes, it is true! Through failureswe can learn what we are short of and gain a lot of lessons from others. Building confidence is agradual process. It takes time and you may see our improvement a few years later. I think thechance of getting this job greatly relies on myself to show much confidence that I can do this jobwell.There is no denying that three important personalities I learned from most difficult experiencesbefore make my life totally different now. In a short, we need to go through many experiences nomatter they are sweet or bitter. Although most experiences are currently difficult or a bit tough forus, it is believed that this kind of influence is powerful and definitely will be valuable for ourfuture.(Essay ID: 379 )Topic: 63Some people argue that most experiences in our lives that seemed difficult at the time, can laterbecome valuable experiences. I cannot agree with them more. There are numerous reasons why Ihold confidence on this opinion, and I would explore only a few primary ones here.Difficulties are beneficial to our personal growth. In the course of our life, we are going to facenumerous difficulties and obstacles, and each difficulty will help us grow up, and become avaluable lesson for the future. A toddler fells off the ground for many times before he knows howto walk, and a child learns how to swim after he drinks water in the swimming pool. In addition,only after we experienced failures, we know the value of success. We will never appreciateanything that comes so easy. Difficulties can make us feel stronger and be more confident for thefuture obstacles.Furthermore, difficulties in our work can help us gain more experience and knowledge. Most ofthe times we can gain knowledge and experiences faster through experiencing difficulties in ourlife and trying to find a solutions to the perplexities that we face. There is a famous saying, nopain, no gain. For example, when we take on a new job that we do not have much experience in,the first few weeks can be extremely painful and we may feel enormous pressure and difficulties.And we will try our best to adjust, to learn and to think, how to do this job better. The moredifficulties we feel, the harder we try to acquire the skills and knowledge to overcome it. Learningand this stage is extremely efficient and our problem-solving skills well increase. After weovercome more and more problems, we can become an experienced worker in this field and willbe able to take on more challenges. We will never fear that we will face the same kind of problemagain. This means that we have accumulated valuable experiences for the future.In a word, a difficult experience is a gift that life gives us. We should appreciate it and take it as aprecious opportunity to gain knowledge and experience about our study, work and life.(Essay ID: 147 )Topic: 108Both learning through personal experience and learning through the advice of others can help youin life. If you dont have a lot of knowledge about something, the advice of people you