Nowadays, it is increasingly acknowledged that the form of teaching
is playing a more and more important role in our education. While
some people believe that life experience is the best teacher, others
advocate that traditional teaching methods such as textbooks and
formal school learning cannot be shaken. As far as I am concerned,
traditional textbooks and formal school education can teach more
efficiently for students, which can be supported by the reasons as
follows. It is reasonable for me to believe that textbooks and
traditional school education are the best teachers, which is obvious
because books provide a solid basis of knowledge. The main
justification for this view is that school provides a systematic
curriculum to help students have a basic understanding of different
academic fields, which cannot be learned from our daily life. To
further support the above statement, the knowledge I have learned in
history class is something I have never touched in daily life. Moreover,
the second reason for this view is that traditional school education
can also enhance critical thinking, which is reasonable because
traditional curriculum such as mathematics helps students to improve
analytical skills. This can be established by a recent study by Oxford
University which stated that 78% of university graduates have tight
logic and rigorous thinking than the average person. In a nutshell,
while this controversial topic never fails to attract public attention, we
may safely conclude that textbooks or formal school education can
teach more effectively than life experiences.