Do people who deny knowledge learned from books as "book learning" over estimate the value of knowledge gained from experience?

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Ideally the books help you learn from other people’s experience so you don’t make the same mistakes as them, or waste time rediscovering something already known.

But there are clueless academics who use this as a crutch, IMO