Which sources of knowledge - books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other - do you consider most trustworthy and why?
Which sources of knowledge – books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other – do you consider most trustworthy and why?
There are many sources of knowledge that give us useful information. A variety is important because every human could choose an acceptable source, which he considers to be the best for him and which doesn’t require lots of money and waste of time. Some sources are very useful nowadays, some of them are old-fashioned. It depends on each person which source is more acceptable to him. In this essay I’m going to tell my opinion about five sources which are being used quite often nowadays in the whole world.
The first source of knowledge I think is a book. Here you can find facts of historical events, reports of scientific works, tips how to create better life, experience of the author etc .In fiction you can loose oneself, to have an adventure with the heroes of that book. Very often books reflect us the society situation at that time, when they have been written. By reading a book younger generation can be aware of the life of their ancients. But very often not only reliable information is written there. The author puts some unidentical facts in order to give us a picturesque view of something and to make the book more interesting. Another reason books are not very reliable source is that time goes on, everything changes and the earlier generations’ thoughts not always correspond with ours. Their thinking of life seems to be old-fashioned and unacceptable for us. For example long time ago in Lithuania was very popular that one child from family would be a parson ( a lot of fiction and other books say about that), but nowadays it seems to be funny. Everyone has his own decision what to be in his life and only few people determine to become priests or something like that. But a book is a very good way to spend your leisure time and to get some useful tips from the author’s experience. But it is very important not to be blind and not to rely on everything that has been written. Every human is special because of his own thoughts and features and he has to lead himself with his own intelligence and not the others. Moreover every author has his own opinion and even when some of them are writing about the same thing we can find lots of differences, which mislead people.
