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1. One acquires knowledge and skills through learning

Knowledge is cognitive. Skill is when the knowledge is used. We all know how

to ride a bicycle. But it becomes a skill only when we actually ride it without

falling.

2. Skill comes from practice

In schools and colleges, teachers make students do a lot of exercises, in class

well as homework. These exercises reinforce learning and develop skills. The

same is the reason for laboratory work in learning science subjects. The 'doing'

in the laboratory is the experience, because of which one begins to 'know',

what till then, was a concept, an idea. When a person knows, he does not

forget and does not have to remember. One who has learnt how to swim never

forgets. It is part of his automatic reflexes. Learning is effective and permanent

when the experience (of doing) reinforces the cognitive learning.