I think that book learning is slightly better because the people who have the real world experience can write the book and someone can read that book and learn from it. Lessons that took the writer years to learn can now be learned in the time it takes to read and understand a book.
I agree that both are necessary to do the best job possible. That's one reason I like DeVry. I'm going there to get a degree in game programming and they teach out of a book, but then back it up by making you apply what you learned in a program, which gives us the book learning of why some peice of code works while also giving us the experience of writing it to show how it works.
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