On learning and its many aspects

I lost all my pictures from the egg-drop challenge, so I guess I'll just have to do without them for this entry. D:

Kelly and I were one of the pairs whose egg contraption failed, but honestly I don't think it was just because we made a faulty one. Of course that's half of it because good construction should be able to withstand almost anything, but on the other hand, our egg hit the concrete ledge, which was not only obviously denser than the soil where most of the other contraptions hit, but had a sharp angle which was probably responsible for the break.

So what did I learn from the activity? Well, apart from practical things like what to do and what not to do next time I have to do an egg drop experiment, I learned that learning (redundant?) is multi-faceted. Kelly and I asked for advice from her brother who's a physics professor, one of our friends helped us come up with the idea for the frame, and we looked on the internet for ideas, but the one thing we didn't do was test out our ideas before the actual drop. That taught me that you can't just depend on books or experience or any one aspect of learning alone -- every single aspect of learning, from sitting in a classroom, to taking a test, all the way up to applying those concepts, needs to receive equal attention.

Books will give you something, experience will give you something else -- neither can give you everything, and so learning should be about finding a balance between all the aspects.