Knowledge vs experience.

India
October 7, 2008 10:25pm CST
What do you think ,which one is important? Which carries more weightage? Knowledge or experience. Many elders say experience is important and the younger genrations say knowledge is important. We all know that both of them are two sides of them. Which one will you choose if this coin is tossed in your life game. If i had to choose between one of them, them i would go for knowledge. Because experience is the costliest thing on earth which takes your big part of life, which is time.
2 responses
• United States
8 Oct 08
I would say that experience is the more important. Anybody can be taught something and gain the knowledge. But not everyone understands how that knowledge should be applied. That most often comes from experience. So knowledge alone isn't enough. It's how you use that knowledge that matters. For instance, any software trainer who knows MS Word can show you how to do a mail-merge. But if you've never actually worked in an office doing it, then you don't really know how things work in the field. So you have the book knowledge, but lack the practical experience. But my having the practical experience doing mail-merges on the job and having worked as a software trainer gives me a better perspective. In other words, I know the software, but can also relate to how things work on the job in the office. So I can better explain how to do some things that may not be in the manual or part of the class. Or understand a concern from a student because I've been there personally. So education (knowledge) alone just isn't enough. You need to combine it with experience too!
• Malaysia
8 Oct 08
If you got bith it would be wiser but for me it will be better if you got the experience will do you good. You know lots of knowledge but when it come to deal with it you have to had experiences on it. Knowledge can be taught but experience you must feel it and walk through it in order to earn it.