Experiences and mistakes along the path of life. Is it possible to learn from other people's mistakes? Material prepared by the creator of the online school “Samarus”

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Final essay.
Thematic direction
Experience and mistakes.
Prepared by: Shevchuk A.P.,
teacher of Russian language
and literature
MBOU "Secondary School No. 1" Bratsk

List of recommended literature:
Jack London "Martin Eden"
A.P. Chekhov "Ionych"
M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don"
Henry Marsh "Do No Harm"
M.Yu. Lermontov "Hero of Our Time"
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign."
A. Pushkin “The Captain’s Daughter”; “Eugene Onegin”.
M. Lermontov “Masquerade”; "Hero of our time"
I. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”; "Spring Waters"; "Noble Nest".
F. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment.”
L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace"; "Anna Karenina"; "Resurrection".
A. Chekhov “Gooseberry”; "About love".
I. Bunin “Mr. from San Francisco”; "Dark alleys".
A. Kupin “Olesya”; "Garnet bracelet".
M. Bulgakov " dog's heart"; "Fatal Eggs"
O. Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
D.Keys "Flowers for Algernon."
V. Kaverin “Two Captains”; "Painting"; “I’m going to the mountain.”
A. Aleksin “Mad Evdokia”.
B. Ekimov “Speak, mother, speak.”
L. Ulitskaya “The Case of Kukotsky”; “Sincerely yours, Shurik.”

Official comment:
Within the framework of the direction, discussions about the value are possible
spiritual and practical experience of an individual,
people, humanity as a whole, about the cost of mistakes along the way
knowledge of the world, gaining life experience. Literature
often makes you think about the relationship between experience and mistakes:
about experience preventing mistakes, about mistakes, without
which it is impossible to move along the path of life, and about
irreparable, tragic mistakes.

Guidelines:
“Experience and mistakes” is a direction in which to a lesser extent
implies a clear opposition between two polar
concepts, because without errors there is and cannot be experience.
Literary hero making mistakes, analyzing them and
thereby gaining experience, changes, improves, rises
on the path of spirituality and moral development. Giving an assessment
actions of the characters, the reader acquires his invaluable
life experience, and literature becomes a real textbook
life, helping not to commit own mistakes, price
which can be quite high. Speaking of committed
heroes of mistakes, it should be noted that the incorrectly accepted
a decision or an ambiguous act can affect not only
the life of an individual, but also in the most fatal way
affect the destinies of others.
In literature we also encounter such tragic errors that
affect the destinies of entire nations. It is in these aspects that one can
approach the analysis of this thematic area.

Aphorisms and sayings of famous people:
One should not be timid for fear of making mistakes, the biggest
A mistake is to deprive yourself of experience.
Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
You can make different mistakes, but you can only do one thing right
way, that’s why the first is easy and the second is difficult; easily
miss, it's hard to hit the target. Aristotle
In all matters we can only learn by trial and error.
mistakes, falling into error and being corrected. Karl Raymund
Popper
He is deeply mistaken who thinks that he will not make a mistake if he
others will think of him. Aurelius Markov
We easily forget our mistakes when they are known only to us
one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Learn from every mistake. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Shyness may be appropriate everywhere, but not in business
admitting your mistakes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is easier to find error than truth. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

To support your reasoning, you can refer to
to the next works.
F.M. Dostoevsky "Crime and
punishment". Raskolnikov, killing Alena Ivanovna and
admitting to what he has done, does not fully realize the whole
the tragedy of the crime he committed does not recognize
the fallacy of his theory, he only regrets that he could not
to commit the crime that he will no longer be able to classify himself among
chosen ones. And only in penal servitude did the soul-weary hero not
simply repents (he repented by admitting
murder), but takes the difficult path of repentance.
The writer emphasizes that a person who recognizes his
mistakes, is capable of change, he is worthy of forgiveness and
needs help and compassion. (In the novel next to
the hero is Sonya Marmeladova, who is an example
compassionate person).

M.A. Sholokhov "The Fate of Man"
K.G. Paustovsky "Telegram". Heroes so different
works make a similar fatal mistake, regret
which I will talk about all my life, but, unfortunately, I have already corrected it
they won't be able to do anything. Andrei Sokolov, leaving for the front,
pushes away his wife hugging him, the hero is irritated by her
tears, he is angry, believing that she is “burying him alive”, and
everything comes out
on the contrary: he returns, and
the family dies. This loss is for
it is a terrible grief, and now
he blames himself for every little thing
and with inexpressible pain says:
"Until death, until the last
my hour, I will die, and not
I’ll forgive myself for pushing her away then!”

Story by K.G. Paustovsky is a story about a lonely
old age. Grandmother Katerina abandoned by her own daughter
writes: “My beloved, I will not survive this winter. Come at least
for a day. Let me look at you, hold your hands.” But Nastya
reassures herself with the words: “If the mother writes, it means she is alive.”
Thinking about strangers, organizing an exhibition of young
sculptor, daughter forgets about the only thing loved one. AND
only after hearing warm words of gratitude “for caring about
person,” the heroine remembers what she has in her purse
telegram: “Katya is dying. Tikhon." Repentance sets in
too late: “Mom! How could this happen?
After all, I have no one in my life. No and not
it will be more dear. If only I had time, if only
she saw me, if only she would forgive me.”
The daughter comes, but asks for forgiveness
no one has anymore. The bitter experience of the main characters
teaches the reader to be attentive to loved ones
"before it's too late."

M.Yu. Lermontov "Hero of Our Time". A series of mistakes
in his life the hero of the novel M.Yu. Lermontov.
Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin belongs to the young
people of their era who were disillusioned with life.
Pechorin himself says about himself: “Two people live in me:
one lives in in every sense of this word, another thinks and
judges him." Lermontov's character is energetic, intelligent
man, but he cannot find a use for his mind,
your knowledge. Pechorin is a cruel and indifferent egoist,
because he causes misfortune to everyone with whom he associates, and
he doesn't care about other people's condition.
V.G. Belinsky called him "suffering
selfish" because Gregory
Alexandrovich blames himself for his
actions, he is aware of his actions,
worries and brings him nothing
satisfaction.

Grigory Alexandrovich - very smart and reasonable
man, he knows how to admit his mistakes, but he wants to
this is to teach others to confess their own, as, for example, he
kept trying to push Grushnitsky to admit his
guilt and wanted to resolve their dispute peacefully. But right there
another side of Pechorin also appears: after some
attempts to defuse the situation in a duel
and call Grushnitsky to conscience himself
offers to shoot at a dangerous
place for one of them to die.
At the same time, the hero tries to convert
everything is a joke, despite the fact that
there is a threat to both the life of the young
Grushnitsky and his own
life.

After the murder of Grushnitsky, we see how things have changed
Pechorin's mood: if on the way to a duel he notices
how beautiful the day is, after a tragic event
he sees the day in black colors, there is stone in his soul.
The story of Pechorin's disappointed and dying soul
set out in the hero’s diary entries from all over
the ruthlessness of self-analysis; being both
author and hero of the "magazine", Pechorin fearlessly speaks
and about your ideal impulses, and about dark sides his
souls, and about the contradictions of consciousness. The hero realizes his
errors, but does nothing to correct them,
his own experience teaches him nothing. Despite
the fact that Pechorin has an absolute understanding that he
destroys human lives(“destroys the lives of peaceful
smugglers", due to his fault Bela dies, etc.), hero
continues to “play” with the destinies of others, which he does himself
unhappy.

L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace". If Lermontov's hero,
realizing his mistakes, he could not take the path of spirituality and
moral improvement, then to your favorite heroes
Tolstoy, the experience gained helps you become better. At
Considering the topic in this aspect, you can refer to
analysis of the images of A. Bolkonsky and P. Bezukhov. Prince Andrey
Bolkonsky stands out sharply from the high society environment
with his education, breadth of interests, dreams
to accomplish a feat, desires great personal glory. His idol
- Napoleon. To achieve his goal, Bolkonsky appears in
the most dangerous places in the battle. Severe military events
contributed to the prince becoming disillusioned with his
dreams, understands how bitterly he was mistaken. Hard
wounded while remaining on the battlefield, Bolkonsky
going through a mental crisis. In these moments in front of him
opens new world, where there are no selfish thoughts, lies,
but there is only the purest, highest, fair.

The prince realized that there is something more significant in life,
than war and glory. Now the former idol seems to him
small and insignificant. Having survived further events -
the birth of a child and the death of his wife - Bolkonsky comes to
the conclusion that he can only live for himself and his loved ones.
This is only the first stage of the hero’s evolution, not only
admitting his mistakes, but also striving to improve.
Pierre also makes a considerable series of mistakes. He leads
wild life in the company of Dolokhov and Kuragin, but
understands that such a life is not for him, he cannot immediately
evaluate people correctly and therefore often makes mistakes about them.
He is sincere, trusting, weak-willed.

These character traits are clearly manifested in
relationship with the depraved Helen Kuragina - Pierre
makes another mistake. Soon after marriage the hero
realizes that he was deceived, and "recycles one within himself
your grief." After breaking up with his wife, being in a state of
deep crisis, he joins the Masonic lodge. Pierre
believes that it is here that he "will find rebirth to a new
life," and again understands that in something important again
is wrong. The experience gained and the “thunderstorm of 1812” lead
hero to drastic changes in worldview. He understands,
that we must live for the sake of people, we must strive to bring
benefit to the Motherland.

M.A.
Sholokhov "Quiet Don". Talking about how experience
military battles change people and force them to evaluate
your life mistakes, you can turn to the image
Grigory Melekhov. Fighting now on the side of the whites, now on
side of the Reds, he understands how monstrous
injustice around, and he himself makes mistakes,
gains military experience and draws the most important conclusions in
of his life: “...my hands need to plow.” Home, family - here
value. And any ideology that pushes people to kill is
error. A person already wise with life experience
understands that the main thing in life is not the war, but the person who greets you
son is on the threshold of his house. It is worth noting that the hero admits that
was wrong. This is precisely the reason for his repeated
throwing from white to red.

M.A. Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog". Speaking of experience
as “a procedure for reproducing some phenomenon
experimentally, creating something new in
certain conditions for the purpose of research", then
practical experience of Professor Preobrazhensky for
“clarification of the issue of survival of the pituitary gland, and in
further and about its influence on the rejuvenation of the body in
people” can hardly be called completely successful. WITH
From a scientific point of view, it is very successful.
Professor Preobrazhensky conducts
unique operation. Scientific
the result was unexpected
and impressive, but in everyday life,
in everyday life it led to
the most disastrous consequences.

The guy who appeared in the professor's house as a result of the operation,
“small in stature and unattractive appearance,” leads
oneself defiantly, arrogantly and arrogantly. However, it should
note that the appeared humanoid creature
easily finds himself in a changed world, but
does not differ in human qualities and soon
becomes a thunderstorm not only for the inhabitants of the apartment, but also
for residents of the entire house.
After analyzing my mistake,
the professor understands that
the dog was much
"more humane" than
P.P. Sharikov.

Thus, we are convinced that the anthropoid
Sharikov's hybrid is more of a failure than a victory
Professor Preobrazhensky. He understands this himself:
“Old donkey... This, doctor, is what happens when
researcher instead of going parallel and
groping with nature, forcing the question and raising
curtain: here, get Sharikov and eat him with porridge.” Philip
Filippovich comes to the conclusion that violent
interference in the nature of man and society leads to
disastrous results. In the story “Dog”
heart” the professor corrects his mistake - Sharikov
turns back into a dog. He is happy with his fate and
yourself. But in life such experiments
tragically affect the destinies of people, warns
Bulgakov. Actions must be thought out and not carry
destructive beginning. the main idea the writer is
that naked progress, devoid of morality, brings
people will die and such a mistake will be irreversible.

V.G.
Rasputin "Farewell to Matera". Talking about
mistakes that are irreparable and bring suffering not only
each individual, but also the people as a whole,
You can also turn to this story by a twentieth-century writer.
This is not just a work about loss home, but also about
how wrong decisions lead to disasters,
which will definitely affect the life of society as a whole.
The plot of the story is based on real story. IN
during the construction of hydroelectric power stations on the Angara were flooded
surrounding villages. Relocation became painful
a phenomenon for residents of flooded areas. After all, hydroelectric power station
built for a large number of people.

This is an important economic project for which it is necessary
rebuild, don’t hold on to the old. But is it possible
call this decision definitely correct? Residents
Flooded, the Maters move to a village not built by Polyudski. The mismanagement with which
huge amounts of money are spent and it hurts the writer’s soul.
Fertile lands will be flooded, and in a village built on
on the northern slope of the hill, on rocks and clay, nothing to grow
will not be. Rough interference with nature is mandatory
will entail ecological problems. But for
they are not so important for a writer,
how much is the spiritual life of people.
For Rasputin it is absolutely clear
that the collapse, the collapse of the nation,
people, country begins with
family breakdown.

And the reason for this is the tragic mistake that
that progress is much more important than the souls of old people saying goodbye
your home. And there is no repentance in the hearts of young people.
The older generation, wise with life experience, is not
wants to leave his native island not because he cannot
appreciate all the benefits of civilization, and above all because
for these conveniences they demand to give Matera, that is, to betray his
past. And the suffering of the elderly is the experience that
each of us must learn. Can't, shouldn't
a person abandons his roots. In reasoning on
this topic can be referred to history and topics
disasters that resulted from the “economic”
human activity. Rasputin's story is not easy
a story about great construction projects, this is a tragic experience
previous generations for the edification of us, people of the XXI
century.

Composition. “Experience is the teacher of everything” (Gaius Julius Caesar)
As a person grows up, he learns from
books, in school classes, in conversations and
relationships with other people. Besides,
environment and traditions have an important influence
family and people as a whole. While learning, the child gains a lot
theoretical knowledge, but the ability to apply it to
practice is necessary in order to acquire the skill,
gain your own experience. In other words, you can
read the encyclopedia of life and know the answer to any
question, but in reality learning to live will help
only personal experience, that is, practice, and without it
unique experience, a person will not be able to live a bright,
a full, rich life. Authors of many
works fiction depict
characters in dynamics to show how
Each person develops his personality and
passing own path.

Let us turn to Anatoly Rybakov’s novels “Children
Arbat", "Fear", "Thirty-fifth and other years",
"Dust and Ashes." Before the reader's gaze passes
the difficult fate of the main character Sasha Pankratov. IN
at the beginning of the story, this is a sympathetic guy, an excellent student,
school graduate and first-year student. He's confident in
your rightness, in your own way tomorrow, in the party, their own
friends, this is open man, ready to come on
helping someone in need. Precisely because of my feeling
justice he suffers. Sasha is sent to
exile, and suddenly he turns out to be an enemy of the people,
completely alone, far from home, condemned
political article. Throughout the trilogy
the reader observes the development of Sasha’s personality.
All his friends turn away from him, except for the girl Varya,
who selflessly waits for him, helping his mother
overcome tragedy.

It is known that Anatoly Rybakov
I thought about writing a trilogy,
but after the release of the third novel
he received many letters asking:
“Are Sasha and Varya really like this?
won't they meet?"
And so the fourth novel, Dust and Ashes, was born. Before
Nami is a gloomy person who does not dare loudly
tell your opinion. He is cautious and secretive.
This is how you could survive
in the USSR 1930-1940s.
Youthful exuberance
hero turns into restraint
and gloominess. The link turns out to be
teacher of real, harsh life.

Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables tells the story
Cosette's girls. Her mother was forced to give her
a baby into the family of the innkeeper Thenardier. There is very
treated someone else's child poorly. Cosette saw how
the owners pampered and loved their own daughters,
who were smartly dressed, played all day and
were being naughty. Like any child, Cosette also wanted
play, but she was forced to clean the tavern,
go to the forest to the spring for water, sweep the street. She is dressed
was in miserable rags, and slept in a closet under
stairs. Bitter experience taught her not to cry, not
complain and silently follow your aunt’s orders
Thenardier. When, by the will of fate, Jean Valjean tore out
the girl from Thénardier's clutches, she didn't know how to play, didn't know
something to do with yourself. The poor child learned to laugh again
play with dolls again, spending carefree days. However, in
in the future, it was this bitter experience that helped Cosette
become modest, with a pure heart and an open soul.

Thus, our reasoning allows
formulate the following conclusion. It’s personal experience
teaches a person about life. Whatever the experience,
bitter or blissful, he is his own,
experiences, and the lessons of life teach us, forming character
and developing personality.

From 2014-2015 school year The program for the state final certification of schoolchildren includes a final graduation essay. This format differs significantly from the classic exam. The work is of a non-subject nature, relying on the graduate’s knowledge in the field of literature. The essay aims to reveal the examinee’s ability to reason on a given topic and argue his point of view. Mainly, the final essay allows you to assess the level of speech culture of the graduate. For exam paper Five topics from a closed list are proposed.

  1. Introduction
  2. Main part - thesis and arguments
  3. Conclusion - conclusion

The final essay 2016 requires a volume of 350 words or more.

The time allotted for the examination work is 3 hours 55 minutes.

Topics for the final essay

The issues proposed for consideration are usually addressed to inner world person, personal relationships, psychological characteristics and the concepts of universal morality. Thus, the topics of the final essay for the 2016-2017 academic year include the following areas:

  1. "Experience and mistakes"

Here are concepts that the examinee will have to reveal in the process of reasoning, referring to examples from the world of literature. In the final essay 2016, the graduate must identify the relationships between these categories based on analysis, building logical relationships and applying knowledge of literary works.

One of these topics is “Experience and Mistakes.”

As a rule, works from the course school curriculum in literature - this is a large gallery of different images and characters that can be used to write a final essay on the topic “Experience and mistakes.”

  • Novel by A.S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”
  • Novel by M.Yu. Lermontov “Hero of Our Time”
  • Novel by M. A. Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”
  • Roman I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons"
  • Novel by F.M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”
  • The story of A.I. Kuprin “Garnet Bracelet”

Arguments for the final essay 2016 “Experience and mistakes”

  • “Eugene Onegin” by A.S. Pushkin

The novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” clearly demonstrates the problem of irreparable mistakes in a person’s life, which can lead to serious consequences. So, main character- Evgeny Onegin, by his behavior with Olgoy in the Larins’ house, provoked the jealousy of his friend Lensky, who challenged him to a duel. The friends came together in a mortal battle, in which Vladimir, alas, turned out to be not as agile a shooter as Evgeniy. Misbehavior and a sudden duel between friends, thus, turned out to be a big mistake in the hero’s life. It is also worth referring here to love story Eugene and Tatiana, whose confessions Onegin cruelly rejects. Only years later does he realize what a fatal mistake he made.

  • “Crime and Punishment” by F. M. Dostoevsky

The central question for the hero of the work F . M. Dostoevsky begins to desire to understand his ability to act, to decide the destinies of people, neglecting the norms of universal morality - “Am I a trembling creature, or do I have the right?” Rodion Raskolnikov commits a crime by killing an old pawnbroker, and later realizes the full gravity of the committed act. The manifestation of cruelty and inhumanity, a huge mistake that led to Rodion’s suffering, became a lesson for him. Subsequently, the hero takes the right path, thanks to the spiritual purity and compassion of Sonechka Marmeladova. The crime committed remains a bitter experience for him for the rest of his life.

  • “Fathers and Sons” by I.S. Turgenev

Essay example

On your own life path a person has to make a large number of vital decisions, choose what to do in a given situation. In the process of experiencing various events, a person acquires life experience, which becomes his spiritual luggage, helping in later life and interaction with people and society. However, we often find ourselves in difficult, contradictory conditions when we cannot guarantee the correctness of our decision and be sure that what we consider correct now will not become a big mistake for us.

An example of the influence of the actions he has committed on a person’s life can be seen in A.S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin.” The work demonstrates the problem of irreparable mistakes in a person’s life, which can lead to serious consequences. Thus, the main character, Eugene Onegin, by his behavior with Olga in the Larins’ house, provoked the jealousy of his friend Lensky, who challenged him to a duel. The friends came together in a mortal battle, in which Vladimir, alas, turned out to be not as agile a shooter as Evgeniy. Misbehavior and a sudden duel between friends, thus, turned out to be a big mistake in the hero’s life. It is also worth turning here to the love story of Eugene and Tatiana, whose confessions Onegin cruelly rejects. Only years later does he realize what a fatal mistake he made.

It is also worth turning to I. S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons,” which reveals the problem of errors in the unshakability of views and beliefs, which can lead to disastrous consequences.

In the work of I.S. Turgenev Evgeny Bazarov is a progressive-minded young man, a nihilist who denies the value of the experience of previous generations. He says that he does not believe in feelings at all: “Love is rubbish, unforgivable nonsense.” The hero meets Anna Odintsova, with whom he falls in love and is afraid to admit it even to himself, because this would mean a contradiction to his own beliefs of universal denial. However, later he becomes fatally ill, without admitting it to his family and friends. Being seriously ill, he finally realizes that he loves Anna. Only at the end of his life does Eugene realize how greatly he was mistaken in his attitude towards love and nihilistic worldview.

Thus, it is worth talking about how important it is to correctly evaluate your thoughts and actions, analyzing actions that can lead to a big mistake. A person is constantly developing, improving his way of thinking and behavior, and therefore he must act thoughtfully, relying on life experience.

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Within the framework of the direction, discussions are possible about the value of the spiritual and practical experience of an individual, a people, humanity as a whole, about the cost of mistakes on the path to understanding the world, gaining life experience.

Literature often makes you think about the relationship between experience and mistakes: about experience that prevents mistakes, about mistakes without which it is impossible to move along the path of life, and about irreparable, tragic mistakes. FIPI

This direction focuses on reasoning about the importance of knowledge, skills and abilities acquired in practical activities, and about the meaning of the conclusions that we draw as a result of the mistakes we make.

Let's turn to dictionaries

Experience(Dictionary by S.I. Ozhegov)

1. - reflection in the consciousness of people of the laws of the objective world and social practice, obtained as a result of their active practical knowledge. Example: Sensitive o.

Experience(Synonym dictionary)

test, trial, experiment; qualification; attempt, (first) debut; competence, research, ability, experience, school, sophistication, sophistication, skill, practice, dexterity, familiarity, knowledge, maturity, qualification, training, experience.

Experience(Dictionary of epithets)

About character, size, basis of experience. Rich, big, centuries-old, great, worldwide, gigantic, huge, grandfatherly, long, long, long-term, spiritual, living, vital, everyday, individual, historical, collective, colossal, personal, world, centuries-old, perennial, accumulated, folk, considerable, immediate, generalized, social, objective, huge, thorough, practical, real, condensed, serious, modest, established, own, solid, social, subjective, fundamental, alien, wide.

About experience evaluation. Priceless, high, bitter, precious, cruel, wonderful, gloomy, wise, invaluable, advanced, sad, deplorable, useful, positive, instructive, intimate, creative, sober, difficult, heavy, cold (obsolete), cold, valuable.

Error(Dictionary by T.F. Efremova)

Error(Synonym dictionary)

Sin, error, delusion, clumsiness, oversight, typo, slip, deviation, blunder, evasion, omission, incorrectness, roughness, false step, sag, measurement, overlook, miscalculation.

Error(Dictionary of epithets)

Big, disastrous, deep, stupid, rude, destructive, childish, annoying, cruel, natural, excusable, correctable, radical, screaming, large, frivolous, small, boyish, petty, incredible, innocent, unnoticeable, insignificant, incorrigible, absurd, irreparable, unforgivable, insignificant, accidental, offensive, dangerous, basic, obvious, sad, shameful, reparable, shameful, forgivable, common, rare, fatal, serious, accidental, strategic, terrible, significant, tactical, theoretical, typical, tragic, terrible, fatal, fundamental, fraught (colloquial), monstrous, obvious. Naked, frivolous. Arithmetic, grammatical, logical, mathematical, spelling, spelling, psychological, punctuation...

For inspiration

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One French peasant had a son who had a bad temper. Then the peasant decided to hammer a nail into the post after each misdeed of his child. Soon there was no living space left on the pillar: everything was covered with nails. Seeing this, the boy began to improve, and after each good deed, the father pulled out a nail from the pillar. The momentous day came when the last nail was pulled out. However, the boy did not feel joy, he cried! Seeing the surprise on his father’s face, the boy said: “There are no nails, but the holes remain!”

Possible essay topics

1. Can an experienced person make mistakes?

2. “Experience is the most best teacher, but the tuition fee is too high” (T. Carlyle).

3. “He makes more mistakes who does not repent of his mistakes.”

4. Does inexperience always lead to trouble?

5. The source of our wisdom is our experience.

6. A mistake for one is a lesson for another.

7. Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition fee is too high.

8. Experience teaches only those who learn from it.

9. Experience allows us to recognize a mistake every time we repeat it.

10. The wisdom of people is measured not by their experience, but by their ability to experience.

11. For most of us, experience is the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the path traveled.

12. Mistakes are a common bridge between experience and wisdom.

13. The worst trait that all people have is to forget about all the good deeds after one mistake.

14. Should you always admit your own mistakes?

15. Can wise men make mistakes?

16. He who does nothing never makes mistakes.

17. All people make mistakes, but great people admit to mistakes.

19. Is it possible to avoid mistakes along the path of life?

20. Is it possible to gain experience without making mistakes?

21. “...Experience, the son of difficult mistakes...” (A.S. Pushkin)

22. The path to truth lies through mistakes.

23. Is it possible to avoid mistakes by relying on the experience of others?

24. Why do you need to analyze your mistakes?

25. What mistakes cannot be corrected?

26. What are misconceptions?

27. What experience does war give a person?

28. How can the experience of fathers be valuable for children?

29. What does reading experience add to life experience?

(Topics in italics are from the manual "Final final essay in 11th grade." A.G. Narushevich and I.S. Narushevich. 2016)

Well said!

Quotes and aphorisms

“For most of us, experience is the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the path traveled.” S. Collridge

"Experience has produced more timid people than smart ones." G. Shaw

"Experience is the name most people give to the stupid things they've done or the troubles they've had." A. Musset

"Experience has no moral significance; people call their mistakes experience. Moralists, as a rule, have always seen in experience a means of warning and believed that it influences the formation of character. They glorified experience because it teaches us what to follow and what to avoid But experience has no driving force. There is as little effect in it as there is in it. human consciousness. Essentially, it only testifies that our future is usually similar to our past and that a sin committed once with a shudder, we repeat in life many times - but with pleasure." O. Wilde

"Experience is a school in which a man learns what a fool he was before." G. Shaw

“We spend a good part of our lives weeding out what we grew in our hearts in our youth. This operation is called acquiring experience.” O. Balzac

"Some people can't learn from anything, not even their own experience." S.King

“You can and should study other experiences, but it is worth remembering that this is someone else’s experience.” L. Gumilyov “Literature gives us a colossal, extensive and deepest experience of life. It makes a person intelligent, develops in him not only a sense of beauty, but also understanding - an understanding of life, all its complexities, serves as a guide to other eras and to other peoples, reveals before you make people's hearts. In a word, it makes you wise." D. Likhachev

“He who has never made a mistake has never tried something new.” A. Einstein

“Three paths lead to knowledge: the path of reflection is the noblest path, the path of imitation is the easiest path, and the path of experience is the most bitter path.” Confucius

"It's so hard to forget pain - but it's even harder to remember the good. Happiness leaves no scars. Peaceful times teach us nothing." Chuck Palahniuk

“It is not at all easy to find a book that has taught us as much as a book written by ourselves.” F. Nietzsche

Proverbs and sayings

Man is not an angel so as not to sin.

A person does not know where he will find it or where he will lose it.

Know how to make a mistake, know how to get better.

As he staggered, he went crazy.

A mistake is a smile for the young, a bitter tear for the old.

If you were mistaken that you hurt yourself, science goes ahead.

Don't be afraid of the first mistake, avoid the second.

The error is corrected.

Once you make a mistake, you will remember it for the rest of your life.

- "The Tale of Peter and Fevronia";

DI. Fonvizin "Undergrowth" (mistakes in education and their consequences);

N.M. Karamzin " Poor Lisa"(Erast's irreparable mistake, the betrayal he committed towards himself - and the consequences of the wrong choice);

A.S. Griboedov “Woe from Wit” (Chatsky, and this is his mistake and tragedy, at first does not perceive Molchalin, does not see him as a worthy opponent. Chatsky’s mistakes and their consequences.)

A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" (Eugene Onegin's life experience led him to the blues, meeting

Tatiana and Onegin gave her the experience of love and disappointment); “Dubrovsky” (Is Masha Troekurova’s refusal to run away with Dubrovsky, who did not have time to save her from marriage and stopped the wedding procession only on the way back from the church, a mistake?)

A.N. Ostrovsky "Thunderstorm", "Dowry";

L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace" (Pierre Bezukhov, the path of true friendship, true love, finding a goal in life, the path of trial and error: marriage to Helen, unsuccessful transformations in the southern estates, disappointment in Freemasonry, rapprochement with the people during the War of 1812. , lessons of Platon Karataev; Andrei Bolkonsky, experience of mistakes and finding the meaning of life);

I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" (Evgeny Bazarov - the path from nihilism to acceptance of the diversity of the world);

F.M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” (the fallacy of Raskolnikov’s theory, “liberation” from moral barriers, which leads to the destruction of personality, suffering, mental anguish; the path to awareness of the mistake and spiritual insight);

A.P. Chekhov "Gooseberry", "About Love", "Ionych" (spiritual degradation of heroes who made irreparable mistakes on the way to their happiness); "The Cherry Orchard";

M. Gorky “At the Depths” (was Luke wrong or right in that a person can correct his mistakes, because everyone keeps within himself possibilities that have not yet been opened to the world);

M. Bulgakov “Notes of a Young Doctor” (Bomgard, acquisition of professional experience, its price); “Heart of a Dog” (what is the mistake of Professor Preobrazhensky);

L.N. Andreev, story “Bite”;

K.G. Paustovsky's "Telegram" (the bitter and irreparable mistake of Nastya, who was late for her mother's funeral and did not want to ease her lonely and hopeless life);

V. Astafiev "Tsar Fish";

B. Akunin, detective stories about Erast Fandorin;

Ch. Palahniuk " Fight club"(gaining experience turns into tragedy for the hero);

D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye" (Holden's acquisition of life experience);

R. Bradbury "Fahrenheit 451" (the mistakes and experiences of Guy Montag), "And Thunder Rolled."

Everyone is familiar with the Latin saying: “To err is human.” Indeed, on the path of life we ​​are doomed to constantly stumble in order to gain the necessary experience. But people do not always learn lessons even from their own mistakes. Then what can we say about other people’s mistakes? Can they teach us anything?

It seems to me that this question cannot be answered unequivocally. On the one hand, the entire history of mankind is a chronicle of fatal mistakes, without looking back at which it is impossible to move forward. For example, international rules of war, prohibiting brutal methods of combat, were developed and refined after the bloodiest wars... The rules we are familiar with traffic- this is also the result of road mistakes that have claimed the lives of many people in the past. The development of transplantology, which saves thousands of people today, became possible only thanks to the persistence of doctors, as well as the courage of patients who died from complications of the first operations.

On the other hand, does humanity always take into account the mistakes of world history? Of course not. Endless wars and revolutions continue, xenophobia flourishes, despite the convincing lessons of history.

In the life of an individual, I think the situation is the same. Depending on our own level of development and life priorities, each of us either ignores the mistakes of others or takes them into account. Let us remember the nihilist Bazarov from the novel. Turgenev's hero denies authorities, world experience, art, human feelings. He thinks it needs to be destroyed social system to the ground, not taking into account the sad experience of the Great french revolution. It turns out that Evgeniy is not able to learn a lesson from the mistakes of others. I.S. Turgenev warns readers about the results of neglecting universal human values. Despite his strength of character and outstanding mind, Bazarov dies because “nihilism” is a path to nowhere.

But the main character of A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s story “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” understands perfectly well that in order to save his life, he needs to learn from the mistakes of others. Seeing how quickly prisoners who “lower themselves” for the sake of an extra piece die, Shukhov strives to preserve human dignity. Ivan Denisovich, watching the beggar Fetyukov, whom everyone despises, notes to himself: “He won’t live out his term. He doesn’t know how to pose himself.”. What allows Shukhov to make such a bitter conclusion? Probably observing the mistakes of other camp inmates, like Fetyukov, who became “jackals.”

It turns out that the ability to learn from other people’s mistakes is not common to everyone and not in all life situations. It seems to me that when a person gets older and wiser, he begins to treat the negative experiences of other people with more attention. And younger people tend to develop by making their own mistakes.

The material was prepared by the creator of the online school “SAMARUS”.

Experience

  • Experience is a reflection in a person’s consciousness of the picture of the world that he received as a result of knowledge.
  • This is knowledge of life, which was the result of what a person has experienced, experienced, felt.
  • Experience is always the result of certain human actions, experienced impressions, emotions, experiences.
  • This is the result of practical activity. Only by performing certain actions in practice, you can learn something to the end, turning it into skills and abilities.
  • Professional experience- the result of hard work, an active desire to master the basics of activity, to bring actions to perfection. This is the result of many years of purposeful implementation of a type of activity, self-education, overcoming ignorance and inability. Professional experience is called skill.
  • Experience is never absolute. It must be constantly improved and strive to keep up with the times.
  • Social experience- this is the ability to live among people, to properly build your relationships with them. Non-conflict, tolerance, the ability to adapt to the environment, to changing social conditions, the desire to find a way out of any situation - all this is developed over the years, this is also the result of practice - living among people.
  • Social experience– this includes the assimilation of traditions, customs, and values ​​of society, the formation of citizenship, a sense of belonging to the life of the country and people.
  • Emotional Experience- this is the ability to control your feelings, not to be led by them, to restrain your emotions when necessary and, conversely, to give free rein to your feelings and express them most fully. Emotionality, sincerity, sensitivity - all this is formed in a person as a result of life experience.

Errors

  • Mistakes are actions, deeds, spoken words that do not correspond to the norms and traditions established in society, leading to collapse and defeat.
  • Views can be erroneous, which is the result of incorrect scientific research, improper upbringing.
  • Erroneous actions are often the result of the fact that a person is not aware of the consequences of his actions, does not understand how much they contradict the laws of society.
  • Errors in professional activity can lead to serious consequences. A medical error leads to the death of a person, a judicial error leads to undeserved punishment, a scientific error leads to unpredictable consequences. You must strive to be a master of your craft and not make mistakes. After all, an error is the result of ignorance, inability, and lack of appropriate practice.
  • The cost of an error in business is especially high. people endowed power. The fate of an entire nation depends on their decisions. Wrong actions can lead to the death of thousands of people.
  • Errors military- incorrectly thought out actions, insufficiently prepared offensive, incorrectly assessed enemy forces and many others - lead to defeat, retreat, enslavement. It is so important that commanders are experienced, knowledgeable people who can foresee the course of events far ahead.
  • Often a mistake is the result of exaggerating one’s abilities and capabilities, the inability to critically look at oneself from the outside, and analyze one’s actions. Narcissism and selfishness often lead to wrong actions.
  • Humans tend to make mistakes. Through overcoming and correcting mistakes, people move towards experience. But error is different. Therefore, it is still necessary to strive to avoid mistakes, to calculate, think through, and predict the consequences.
  • I will never agree with the expression that mistakes are the most valuable experience. What is their price - the terrible consequences? Errors are the inability to solve something, to carry out something; it is a problem that arises as a result of something not completed on time, not learned. Yes, they help you gain experience. But how bitter he can be sometimes.
  • Errors should not be confused with inaccuracies when performing actions without fully mastering the methodology for their implementation. This, of course, requires training and education. Mistakes are still actions that have negative consequences.
  • Mistakes can be avoided. You just need to conscientiously do what you undertake, bring everything to the end, analyze it, and just think. We are reasonable people.

Experience and mistakes. They are always nearby in a person's life. To accumulate experience, not to make mistakes, but having made them, to realize them and do everything to prevent them from happening in the future - this is what a person should strive for in order to live his life with dignity.

Material prepared by: Melnikova Vera Aleksandrovna