Is it more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts？ Understanding concepts and ideas is an essential part in the learning process, but there is a question as to whether it is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than to learn facts. Form my perspective, facts and concepts are equally important and we should devote effort to both of them. First, learning facts is beneficial for us to get a better understanding of concepts and ideas. As a student of chemistry, I used to get confused with the numerous concepts. Many of them have a similar look and it is quite easy to mix them up. Confused by these concepts, it was difficult for me to catch up with the teacher in class and get high scores in various tests. Aware of my problem, my professor shared his learning experience with me. When he was a student, he uses the concepts and the ideas to explain the experimental facts that he met. With the accumulation of relative facts, the relationship between different concepts became more clear, and he found that he can memorize those concepts more easily. I took his advice and in the next term my grade increased dramatically. Concepts and ideas are founded on the base of large amount of facts, so the learning of facts is beneficial for the understanding of concepts and ideas. Second, facts and concepts reveals different aspects of one subject's beauty. Facts are appealing and beautiful while concepts are more logical and rational; both of them can get us interested in the subject. Indeed, the various concepts shows the great wisdom of mankind. They are shining and glorious and provoke our curiosity towards the unknown. However, it doesn't mean that the fact is not beautiful. In a chemistry experiment, it is the fancy color-changing process that attracts our sight. The beautiful facts stimulate our interests toward the subject and give us the incentive to carry on further study which enables us to learn more about the concepts and ideas. As we can see, both concepts and facts play an important role in cognizing the subject's beauty, so it is unfair to regard learning concepts and ideas as something prior to learning facts. Simply put, it is safe for us to draw the conclusion that learning facts and understanding concepts and ideas are equally important. Immersing ourselves in both of them, we will get a better view of what we learned.