book learning
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His Katrina work culminated in the 2022 book, “Learning from Katrina,” co-written with sociologist Lori Peek, who directs the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, and whom Erikson had tapped as the task force’s associate chair.
Book learning is all very well, but as Agatha Swanburne liked to say, “If you want fresh ideas in your head, get some fresh mud on your boots.”
From Literature
The Parisian writer Colombe Schneck wrote about taking up swimming in her 40s after a lifetime devoted to brainy, sedentary pursuits: “I had so much to learn, but it wasn’t the kind of book learning I was used to. It was an unexplored, parallel world, the world of sensation.”
It is very true that this person exists who is a hustler, who is as fly as she says she is and who has not only book smarts but street smarts, which I think is very underrated, or what’s the word I’m looking for, not valued as much as a book learning.
From Los Angeles Times
In supple pentameter, Shakespeare explores the difference between the book learning the young men meant to engage in and the learning that emerges, despite their plans, from “the prompting eyes of beauty’s tutors.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
