Essay 1

Every student studies in classroom in order to attain knowledge. However, they all acknowledge the fact that there is another source of learning – from the outside, from the real world. One could not live without gaining knowledge, so it is important to see the difference between two learning types, in order to learn facts more efficiently.

           Learning in classroom, somehow, is like studying a fake world. Knowledge from books and class in not from the real world – it is from the copy of the real world, which could be called a fake world. For instance, if I learn how to distinguish a butterfly and moth in a biology class, I will be the top at distinguishing a butterfly picture from a moth picture, but I might not be able to distinguish real moth from butterfly. Like this, the knowledge learned in classroom might not be well adapted to the real world itself, making the studying in classroom not so efficient.

           However, if you intend to study something that you are not able to observe and discover in the real world, such as philosophy, learning in the classroom is most likely be the best way to do so. Let’s say that you want to learn about Teleology. It will take a long time before you could figure out the core thought of the Teleology by yourself, but it will take much less time if you just read Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle’s books. As this shows, learning at classroom is extremely efficient at learning something that is difficult to learn in reality.

           Learning from personal experience is the exact opposite of learning in the classroom. If you want to interact with the real world and learn about them, learning outside is much more efficient than learning in the classroom. Also, there is another merit in learning from personal experience. Since the experience you learn from is special, and limited to you only, the learned knowledge last long. Imagine this. If you almost die from mixing chemicals which is explosive, the knowledge that mixing that two chemical will bring dangerous explosion would not be forgotten till the end of your life.

           As shown, the two types of learning style both have good point and bad point, making it impossible to say which one is better. The best way of learning should be using this two techniques efficiently in each cases.