Essay on Experience is the best teacher

       

                                                             Experience is the best teacher 

  If we warn a child not to touch fire. he may not listen to the warning and may be curious to know what actually happens if he touches fire. But as soon as he touches the fire and gets burned a valuable lesson, which he will never forget throughout his life. He now knows that he will get burnt if he touches fire, and will in the future, avoid touching the fire. Experience taught him what mere advice or warning failed to do. 

        We can thus see that experience is the best teacher. In life,  we learn so many things through so many sources. We learn from books,  from teachers, from wise men, from saints, a chilli taster from the examples of others and from nature. But most of the knowledge we get from this source is indirect. For direct knowledge we need to have personal experience, for example, we cannot know what chilli tasters like, how ice feels what the sunset looks like, what a rose smells like, or what we feel when we fall down into a pit except through experience. Experience gives us direct. first-hand knowledge about these feelings of senses. 

        There are certain skills which we cannot acquire without doing or practising, that is without doing or practising, that is without direct experience. For example, we cannot learn riding, swimming, driving or even elementary skills like speaking or walking just by reading books on these subjects, or by listening to a lecture on how to acquire that particular skill.

        Even in the case of subjects that, we learn through books and from teachers, our knowledge remains incomplete, partial, theoretical and abstract unless it is supplemented by practical knowledge or experience. We can never put into words or visualise com remains incomplete, par or experience. We can never put into words or visualize completely what we have directly learnt from our experiences Hence, learning by experience is the best way of learning and experience is the best teacher.

        But knowledge in the modern world is very vast, and the time and other resources at our disposal are limited, so it is not always possible for us to have the direct experience of everything we want to learn. Again, direct experience is sometimes not desirable or advisable. For example, one cannot try to learn by direct experience that death is caused by consuming poison or that limbs are broken by falling from a great height. In such cases, we learn from the experience of others which may be, presented to us through books or through personal communication.

        In any case, experience is the best teacher and no lesson that we learn from other source is as though, perfect and permanent as therefore know that learning by doing is the best way of learning and therefore they say: " Let the child learn by doing