This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "glean lessons" when you want to express the idea of extracting knowledge or understanding from an experience. For example, "After studying abroad, I was able to glean many lessons about different cultures."
Students can read about the previous shutdown 17 years ago to try to glean lessons from the past.
Others see the value of learning from Facebook, hoping to glean lessons about scaling and designing a "hack" culture.
In addition, examine how the Kony video went viral and glean lessons from the video's popularity to make a plan to disseminate one or more of the videos.
Both campaigns will almost certainly pore over the exit polls and other information to try and glean lessons from the voter behavior.
A century after the Belgica's return, a NASA research consultant named Jack Stuster began examining the records of the trip to glean lessons for another kind of expedition: a three-year journey to Mars and back.
The second in her All Souls trilogy, Shadow of Night finds Diana Bishop, an American academic and spellbound witch, transported to Elizabethan England on the trail of an ancient, missing alchemical manuscript and hoping to glean lessons in witchcraft at a time when such practices could be considered, at best, risky.
From Austen's books, Deresiewicz gleaned lessons for becoming a useful adult.
Seth Kugel speaks to travel experts from the world of academia and gleans lessons useful for the average traveler.
Dynegy is the slower, more cautious company, the younger sibling that carefully gleaned lessons from the example set by a brasher Enron.
Adopting an improvement methodology that evaluates the impact of new care models and gleans lessons for subsequent innovation allows efforts to both benefit from, and systematically add to, overall 'innovation architecture' that 'makes the next care-model design better, faster, or cheaper' [ 36, 39].
As the British sift through the events of June 24, they will glean important lessons, said Maj.
