learn to walk before you can runとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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learn to walk before you can run

1. (idiomatic) before you can perform a complicated task, you have to learn how to perform more simple tasks
   • 1998, Alma Thomas, Power Performance for Singers: Transcending the Barriers, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 29:

     Optimal performances can also be used as platforms for achieving greater things in performance later. You might think of optimal performance as learning to walk before you can run or 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 to learn to walk before you can run and defers to the lower capacity of the young child's mind to grasp more complex models.

2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see learn,‎ walk,‎ before,‎ run.