learn to walk before one can run

Meaning: (idiomatic)Before one canperformacomplicatedtask, one has tolearnhowtoperformmoresimpletasks.1998, Alma Thomas,Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers, Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page29:Optimal performances can also be used as platforms for achieving greater things in performance later. You might think of optimal performance aslearning to walk before you can runor learning the arias before the whole role or running many ten-kilometer races before you try to run a marathon.2007, David A Herzog,Math You Can Really Use-Every Day, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,→ISBN,page 1:Our mathematics education —particularly our arithmetic education— began with the least important numbers and worked through the years to get us to the more important ones. I guess that follows the theory of having tolearn to walk before you can runand defers to the lower capacity of the young child's mind to grasp more complex models.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seelearn,‎walk,‎before,‎run.

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EN: One must learn to walk before one can run.
ES: Antes de correr, hemos de aprender a andar.

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