The chief object of education is to unlearn all the weariness and wickedness of the world and to get back into that state of exhilaration we all instinctively celebrate when we write by preference of children and of boys.
If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.
So with much ado the innocent child is "corrupted and made to learn the dirty devices of the world," which he must again unlearn and become a little child once more in the Kingdom of God.
Could he unlearn a little the doctrines of his school, Don Carlos holds the best chance to-day not only of occupying the throne, but of occupying the hearts and hopes of the nation.
Not a mulish obstinacy which spurns counsel, and, by magnifying ourselves above all others, teaches us only to unlearn ourselves.
Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again, and continue to learn, from our own experience.
Let us unlearn everything we knew only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again, and continue to learn.
When they learn the lessons of responsibility, they will unlearn this fatal habit, and not before.
Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.
Poets would have a great deal to unlearnif they are to look upon Nature in that light.
In fact, the student must unlearn much of the stereotyped lessons of the text-books, and this is particularly true of the supposed medicinal effects of drugs, which are always exaggerated.
This sort of philosophy, an odd kind of cross between Stoicism and Epicureanism, I have learned, where most people unlearn all their philosophy, in crowded senates and fine drawing-rooms.
Coming out of the most untoward circumstances, with less than a half century in which to outlive and unlearn the deadly doings of two hundred and fifty years, who can lay claim to more or to so much as the Negro?
The time required for the people of the Dynastic States to unlearn their preconceptions will be longer than the interval required for a new onset, 197.
We should be very careful not to use them as the weapons of vice, or tools of folly, and do our utmost to unlearn any trivial or ridiculous habits which tend to lessen the value of such an inestimable prerogative.
Zounds, I nearly said-- Lord, tounlearn one's language!
Violante, you must let me call her so, Nor waste time, trying to unlearnthe word,.
And when we learn better to enjoy ourselves, then do we unlearn best to give pain unto others, and to contrive pain.
With thee did I unlearn the belief in words and worths and in great names.
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be found much greater.
The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
The officers who had come through the schools and training camps, watchful if silent, had learned their fundamentals thoroughly and up to date, without having to unlearn pre-war teachings.
Aside from a few regular superiors, their officers were graduates of the Officers' Training Camps, who, as the regulars said, had nothing to unlearn and were subject to no political associations.
They have to unlearn it at school and from the lips of pains-taking parents.
Much of the vocabulary is wrong from the standpoint of the grammar and dictionary, and they have to unlearn it.
The business of the Disciple is to throw away and renounce what he has, and to unlearn what he has learned.
So long as thou dost not unlearn all thy previous notions, habits and defects, thou canst not unfold the Eye of Wisdom in the Heart, and feel the relish of the Science of Truth.
You will have tounlearn those little 'plain dinners' and makeshifts of yours.
He who finds himself inconvenienced by knowing too little can go to the British Museum, or to the Working Men's College, and learn more; but when a thing is once well learnt it is even harder to unlearn it than it was to learn it.
Would it be possible to unlearn the art of speech or the arts of reading and writing even if we wished to do so?
She who gave me my first lesson in that art, is scarcely the one to bid me now unlearn it, and I want no new teaching as yet, thank Heaven.
I'll show you one will teach you to unlearnthis fixed contempt of gentle woman.
I hope in the days to come future thinkers will unlearn us, and find ideas infinitely better.
So might the wish to unlearn be at last started in the inert mind of the mass.
Almost the only books left to me to read, and not to unlearn very much, are my first books--the graven classics of Greece and Rome, cut with a stylus so deeply into the tablet they cannot be erased.
Next came Plato (it took me a long time to read Plato, and I have had to unlearn much of him) and Xenophon.
You have not yet conceived what excellence is: you must unlearnyour mistaken admirations.
But a great number of persons are now bred from their earliest manhood in the very midst of that routine; they learn it as they would learn a language, and come to be no more able to unlearn it than they could unlearn a language.
What if I ever were Doomed to unlearn to call this child, MY child, DAYA.
You had to unlearn it, and I--I was never so happy, as to be able to pronounce it at all.
Amongst men I fear you'll soonunlearn to be a man.
That I might thus unlearnmy native trade, Your cook!
I was very young when I last used this sweet name; very young, when I had tounlearn the equally sweet name of mother.
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