People learning new things by lots of different ways, they can learn by reading or they can learn by doing things. For some people, learning is better either one way or the other. I prefer to learn by doing things because when I do something myself I feel more real than when I read it.

First, learn things by doing are more effective than reading. For instance, I learned how to ride a bicycle and drive a car by experience. I learned ride a bicycle when I was a child. I couldn’t read that time, so I learned from my mistake when I fell off my bicycle. Similarly, I learned to drive car by practice. Although I had to study a driving manual and take a knowledge test, I could not learn driving well until I practiced driving in a car.

Second, learn things by doing are concrete, unlike by reading is abstract. We are taking computer course now, and I learned how to use it by doing it. Although our instructor require each of us needs to read the textbook, but this was difficult for us because the book was very complex. I learned more when I sit in front of computer and tried use several keyboard, of course, our teacher explained some thing about the system, however, I could learn best when I experienced it.

On the other hand, it is true that people have to learn some things by reading, such as history, philosophy, and literature. Reading gives people lots of important knowledge, and this knowledge we can not learned from doing it.

Both leaning things by doing and reading are good ways for people, however, for most skill that I need for my life, I prefer to learn through the action. These skills must be experienced for me to really learn them.
 

August 2004