in no other

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.

What's the meaning of "keeps a dear school","learn in no other"?

What's the meaning of the idiom?

from www.dictionary.com

dear

(other meanings...)

–adjective, -er

Thanks~!

But I'm still confused about the second part of the sentence.

Does that mean "fools don't learn experience"?

No, it means that the only way that fools can learn is through experience.

I have got it, thank you both!

The fools don't learn in any school, including the school of life.

Or take the more positive view of Nona's

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.

You can't interpret this as fools don't learn in any school.

No other - none apart from this.

I love you and no other =I love you and not anybody else. It doesn't mean I don't love at all.

I will eat no other brand of ice-cream = This is the only brand of icecream I eat. It doesn't mean I don't eat ice

Nona: you're right, and I stand corrected. It must be too early here

dear= costly