People shouldn't always just blindly accept what is told to them as truth either - they need to have the ability to determine if something is true or not on the

People shouldn't always just blindly accept what is told to them as truth either - they need to have the ability to determine if something is true or not on their own, and experiencing/verifying things yourself is a powerful way to do that. So overall it's a balancing act. There's also a lot of information that's lost when you merely just tell someone something. There's just no way to know exactly how bad it feels to touch a stove unless you have been through the experience yourself, there's no way for a human to convey that level of feeling to another human verbally, and as such it's inevitable that humanity's curse is that we have to relive things over and over again.