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book learning en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of book-learning.
Harry's education has included book learning and practical learning, but he's been absorbing the lessons of the heart as well—kindness, courage, loyalty, and the virtue that Dumbledore places above all others: love.
2005 July 18, Alexandra Mullen, “Book Review: Harry, Conquering Hero”, in New York Sun, retrieved 31 Aug 2010:What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning.
1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 117: