Knowledge

How to gain knowledge

We would define knowledge as a skills obtained by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Considering thisdefinition, knowledge could be gain from a theoretical or a practical perspective, meaning books or experience. It is difficult to define which one is better considering that both are relevant andmeaningful for the learning process.

There are some advantages and disadvantages regarding these perspectives that might be important to review in order to do any statement.

• Books contain lot ofknowledge which is a result of many years of research and evidence that is important to consider for new discoveries and challenges of the new era. For example, we cannot create the Television withoutbasic knowledge on Micro electric. People through their reading could get a large amount of information on a short time and in that way they can understand different matters easily. For example if wewant to access to any information about 2nd World War, we can just look up for some books to figure out different issues.

• Education is a right and an important tool for all the childrenaround the world and this allow them to get the basic information to survive, live and enjoy this planet got from books and their teachers.

• On the other side life experience is also important inthe process of getting knowledge. People tend to learn from their mistakes and failures in order to distinguish right from wrong. Even though in development countries there are many books that teachyou about feelings or inner emotions they cannot teach you about many experiences associate with these emotions because they are subjective, personal and unique. For example in the US there are manybooks that teach you how to have more friends or how to get better time with people but they are not enough, because they depend on each person

• In the past people thought that Earth was flat,...