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What is book-learning?

What is book-learning? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Knowledge acquired from reading books, as opposed to knowledge gained through experience or feeling; theoretical or academic knowledge as opposed to practical or common-sensical knowledge.
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He invented a new version, Fischer Random, in which the back pieces were lined up any old how, throwing all that careful book-learning to the winds.
It was not the love of book-learning, still less the love of games, which drew him there.
Sports should be as carefully looked to in early education as book-learning.
Until then though, BenchPrep will be the savior of anyone frustrated by the static book-learning experience.
None of us was overburdened with book-learning or technical training, myself least of all.
They knew that book-learning often came in useful at a pinch, in spite of what their neighbours said.

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