book-learning
nounDefinitions
Theoretical or academic knowledge acquired by reading books or through formal education,…
Theoretical or academic knowledge acquired by reading books or through formal education, as opposed to practical or empirical knowledge of real life and the real world, gained through experience, or natively as street smarts, common sense, or intuition.
- What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning.
- That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for book-learning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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