Proverb Expansion
PRACTICE MAKES MAN PERFECT
The proverb stresses the importance of continuous practice to learn anything. There is no short-cut to get mastery in a trade, art or sport. Only rigorous practice will make a person perfect in any field of activity. Mere knowledge of a thing is not enough to acquire mastery in it. One has to practice it to have mastery over it. Perfection can be achieved only through practice. We may know a rule in physics or mathematics. But we can have perfection in the subject only when we practice similar examples again and again. A mechanic learns his art through continuous practice. A person working on computer, a painter, artist, a sportsman, all gain perfection through practice. Mere theoretical knowledge of a subject is not enough for mastery in that subject. Continuous practice using theoretical knowledge makes a man perfect in his field of activity. A child learns things through practice. A musician needs strenuous practice to gain perfection in music. A sportsman gains perfection through constant practice. Thus it can be aptly concluded that practice makes a man perfect