Noun
book learning (uncountable)
Alternative form of book-learning
book-learning (uncountable)
Theoretical or academic knowledge acquired by reading books and/or through formal education, as opposed to practical or empirical knowledge of real life and the real world, gained through experience, or native as street smarts, common sense, or intuition.
book-learning
My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in ... the little town in which I grew up. ... Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world ... of lava rock and sagebrush desert. ... I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since. Richard McKenna
...only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it. Carl von Clausewitz
That night my parents told me what my cousin had suggested. I said no, absolutely not! I turned and walked away as fast as I could. My parents really had no idea how much it had hurt me all these years to go to school. I was done with all book learning. Victor Villaseñor
He believed in the importance of experience over book learning and memorization. Source: Internet
This kind of knowledge (or "book learning"), like desire, should be diminished. Source: Internet
Tutors needed to teach students through experience rather than through the mere memorization of knowledge often practised in book learning. Source: Internet