<< I thought experience is more important than knowledge gained from books. I thought most important thing in our lives is what we can do, not what we can say. In that sense, knowledge based on our experience seems to be more practical and useful. However we know many things from reading books, we can't do anything without practical training. Now I think both types of knowledge are important to do our jobs effectively. As I stated above, I believed in knowledge gained from real experience and didn't think books are so important. I study medicine in my university. Studying medicine is composed mainly of two factors, practical training and lectures in a classroom. I didn't think lectures are important because such knowledge gained in a classroom can easily be forgotten, while knowledge gained from experiments or patients has strong impressions to our minds. This idea might be applied to most of us, medical students, we know from our experience that knowledge based on practical training is more useful. But one day, I noticed my mistake due to the words of one of our professors. In some lecture time, he said to us, "Why don't you think lectures are also experience?" These words struck my minds because until then, I thought lectures and experience are different things. For me, lectures are only knowledge without real practical experience. I noticed from his words that whether lectures become practical knowledge or just end up as paper-knowledge depends on our sincerely attitudes. Recently, another professor said to us, "Bedside learning is important when you come to wards." Bedside learning doesn't mean we read books before we go to bed. What he means is exactly both knowledge gained from experience and gained from books are important. We have to learn directly from our patients in a ward. But the experience can't be our meat or bone if we forget reading our textbooks after we go home. "Bedside learning" means that both experience and books are important for medical students to be an effective clinician. In other words, we should experience at bedside from a patient, while we have to read books at home. And I definitely agree with the idea of the "Bedside learning".