Monday, November 17, 2025
Learning from Mistakes
Columella, On Agriculture 1.praef.16 (tr. Harrison Boyd Ash):
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It is practice and experience that hold supremacy in the crafts, and there is no branch of learning in which one is not taught by his own mistakes.See Emanuele Lelli, "Errando Discitur," Classical Quarterly 58.1 (May, 2008) 348.
usus et experientia dominantur in artibus, neque est ulla disciplina, in qua non peccando discatur.
