Thursday, April 17, 2008

TOEFL practice essay ~ Iris 11

4. It has been said, "Not all learning takes place in the classroom." Compare and contrast knowledge gained from personal experience with knowledge gained from classroom instruction. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

It is in my humble understanding, that all learning definitely does not take place in the classrom.It is like everything else, just an opinion but it is mine and it is of course based upon my understanding.

Those who are more educated than us take the responsibility to prepare their students, even though they may have not so much to give, they still share. We are free to take all that we want and need but of course this is only the beggining. The teacher does not teach you how to distinguish wrong from right. They teach you the consequnces. They dont teach us how to behave they show us the ethics.We cannot learn in a classrom how to run a firm but we can know how it functions. They cant make us write a best seller but they can teach us the example of those before.

School is just the step towards your life. It is only the end of the beggining. It is all that you need to get all that you can. Grab knowledge, embrace intelligence from all those who are able to give it. Listen a lot but dont talk as much. Open your eyes but not your mouth. Succeed and one day people will look up to the knowledge you have.