<<      I admit that both of them must be important for our lives. But by comparing the effects of both of them, I think personal experience is a little more important. When I study my subject, I always keep in my mind that practicing is the most important. I mean, we can get much information from our textbooks, but we can get more information by our experiences. For example, when we learned human anatomy, we used real human body as a subject. Recently the computer technology have developed very much, so we can get enough three dimensional images on the computer screen. Or we can ues some plastic models as our learning materials. But I think that is not enough. By only using such non-organic materials, I think we can never aquire sufficient skills as a doctor.      I think anatomical terms we learn through the practice is very important, and I know it is necessary to be a doctor. But it can be get only through our textbooks or lectures by our teachers. What we can get by using the real human body is the real experience. The real experience is enough for doctor, virtual experience is not enouth however thechnology develops. If I would be a surgeon in the future, can I cut the real human body without the real experience while I am a student? Or if I must come across many deaths in the hospital, can I bear my works without knowing how human lives is valuable and how human would be after his or her death? Those things can not be acquired only by reading textbooks or hearing someone's advice. So I think personal experience is important to learn about life.      On the other hand, advice of family and friends sometimes be very helpful. When I was a high school student, I talked about human death with my family. Don't take it so seriously, my family is not such a philosophical family, just a normal family. But then, I wanted to talk about human death with my family. When the topic comes to an euthanasia, a doctor kills his patient without pain because he can not no more offer any treatment, I asked my father how he thought about that. My father, a surgeon, didn't give me no answer, he just said to me that if you would be a doctor in the future, do your work leagally and justicely. On the other hand, my mother, just a house keeper, said that, "Why doctors should take such a responsibility to kill a person?".      Her answer is normal but her answer includes in some sence, the truth. By her words, what I had in mind was cleared. Yes, doctors are not a saint or even God. Doctors are not special, just one of the jobs. So I also think that doctors should not take risks to kill his patient.      I think the most helpful thing for learnig about life is personal experience. But as I have said above, advice by family members or friends are also helpful for us. So I think both of them are so important and I can not which is better for me.