book learning
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But what he lacks in book learning he’s more than made up for in wisdom, humanity and street smarts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023
During my dad’s illness, I experienced firsthand what had, until then, just been book learning: Financial planners are often at their best when your life is at its worst.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2021
“While book learning was the star of the show up until now, practical, hands-on learning has come into the picture.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2020
For medical students, this is the point at which, after two years of book learning, we rotate through hospital clerkships that give us our first experience of delivering hands-on care to inpatients.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2020
He had book learning and was almost twenty- one; still he could make a ten-year-old schoolboy feel proud as a man.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
