I need help with an English phrase, please

[stinkynuts]

What do you call the experience and learning you gain from doing things, as opposed to just reading about it in school?

Is it real-life experience, real-world experience, or something else? These terms appear to apply to people looking for jobs, but not elementary school students. Thanks.

 

[tboy]

that's called practical experience.......(as opposed to theoretical)

 

[Hangman]

"life experience"

 

[Aardvark154]

"life experience"

Is the term I've heard most often used.

 

[einar]

"Hands-on experience," a favorite of the TERB crowd.

 

[Yoga Face]

"Hands-on experience," a favorite of the TERB crowd.

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LOL

 

[anon1]

empiricalism

 

[oldjones]

You call it experience. What you learn in school is knowledge, usually theoretical, though in practical subjects there may be a hands-on practice component. But only a faker would try to pass that off as experience without qualification. That's what all those suggeested adjectives are: qualifiers, and most of them redundant at that. "Real-world' experience f'rinstance, as if anyone could have fantasy-world experience without being delusional.

 

[Purrrfection]

how about self-taught

 

[Aardvark154]

Stinky nuts, although this may be plainly obvious to you, also such experience is usually self-apparent in one's C.V. or Résumé such that one doesn't have to give it a name: e.g. Instructor Pilot CF-18 conversion course, CFB Moose Jaw January 2009 - January 2010. Fairly obvious that you know how to fly and also that you have experience teaching adults even if you haven't taken any academic courses in teaching adults.

 

[toughb]

empiricalism

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empirical:- Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory.

One word captures it nicely.

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[Kyra.Graves]

These terms appear to apply to people looking for jobs, but not elementary school students. Thanks.

For elementary school students I would typically apply the terms "common sense" or say the student demonstrates sound judgement and clear reasoning, depending on the situation. I'm not sure if those are the terms that you are looking for as I'm not sure what the situation is but that's the best I can think of right now.

 

[dandywriter]

"School of hard knocks"

 

[Don Draper]

Perhaps: PRAGMATIC ?

Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected.

 

[Cycleguy007]

Book smart

vs

street smart...

 

[Pugsley]

Learning by doing
Live and learn