The chief object of education is not to learn things But to unlearn things.
Quotes about unlearn (16 Quotes)
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
You had to unlearn all the stuff you thought you knew about basketball in '04-'05, throw all that out the window and get back to basics. It was weird because it was almost like going to a camp for nine-year-olds.
The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn.
I must have done something right because they gave me a grant to the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama in 1983. But I hated all that stuff they taught me while thumping out the rawness and energy I had. I went off and formed a small experimental, often political, theatre company called Rain Dog to unlearn it.
Clearly there is a need to unlearn our collective prejudices, to promote a continuing dialogue among the great religions, a dialogue based on the premise that diversity in thought, in belief, and in action, is a precious gift, not a threat,
The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.
Being around children that small, you see how naturally they gravitate to the light. They're not cynical yet. It takes many years to unlearn that kind of innocence.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking -- love -- feels unnatural and unnatural thinking -- fear -- feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.