Some people think that travel helps gaining knowledge, but others think that TV and internet play an important role in gaining knowledge. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
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| Ielts Essay _ Travel or Internet? |
With internet and television gaining prominence as mediums of carrying and accessing information, many
people have started adapting these media as a viable alternative to traveling
for gaining knowledge to different locations but there is a sizeable section
which feels that there is no substitute to actual travel to enhance the
knowledge.
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As life gets busier and more
complex some have completely adapted themselves to assessing internet
and watching television to enhance their knowhow base about happenings and
developments in adjoining neighborhoods and across the globe. They feel that
this can save them substantial money and time and they can also get
comprehensive information about the subject being pursued. These people use
various web portals and apps to gain access to the inputs and in fact acquire knowledge about the precise locations of happenings with several advanced apps
like Google earth.
On other hand, there is large
section of thinkers who feel that the conventional way of enhancing
the inputs and exposure to the outer world: physical travel can never be
superseded by the virtual mediums. As per them, come what may actual travel
helps experience and see the real dimensions and essence of the
happenings and subject being pursued, something that can never be attained using virtual
media.
Moreover, in order to gain
first hand and unbiased information about the subject of the pursual it is
important for the people to actually be there in middle of the happenings as
the information flow in case of the internet and television actually travels through
many junctions and its impartial clarity is always questionable.
In conclusion, I feel that
even though internet and television have successfully replaced many mediums
of gaining inputs but travelling will remain unchallenged source of enhancing knowledge.
