experience is the best teacher

English

Etymology

A calque translation of Latin usus magister est optimus Cicero, Oration for Rabirius.

Proverb

experience is the best teacher

1. Lessons learned from experience are the most lasting.

Translations

lessons learned from experience are the most lasting

• Finnish: käytäntö on paras opettaja; Siperia opettaa
• Jamaican Creole: young bud nuh know storm
• Spanish: la experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

See also

• school of hard knocks
• w:Ut est rerum omnium magister usus
• Experience is the mother of wisdom