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Quotes About Relearning

Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again.
~ James Blish
there's no question that a major moment of unlearning and relearning is at hand for educators of all stripes.
~ Will Richardson
I try to shed what I've learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember
~ Fernando Pessoa
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.
~ Rosemary Radford Ruether
When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten. That a child can laugh without reason, that he can jump around for no reason, that he can become an exuberant burst of aliveness – that's life.
~ Sadhguru
That's what my objective was, to reinvent myself from a console designer to starting a new business and embracing multi-platform, relearning the skills necessary to make successful games. It's been an amazing journey.
~ Peter Molyneux
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.
~ Gloria Steinem
Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly, it retaught me love.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Therapy doesn't always work. Sometimes when it does work, it works only for a while and then the person degenerates back to living out of more bullshit - this time about how well therapy worked - and loses whatever relearning occurred.
~ Brad Blanton
The post area I had to unlearn. And yeah, now it's a relearning process. It's different. It's learning what works and what doesn't work.
~ Chris Bosh
I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
~ Nicholson Baker
By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
~ Chris Crutcher
I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I've forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.
~ Lee Gutkind
En resumen, pues, el reaprendizaje emocional –una tarea que, ciertamente, no concluye nunca– puede remodelar hasta los hábitos emocionales más profundamente arraigados de nuestra infancia.
~ Daniel Goleman
Would you like to come in?" I said. My hands were sweaty. Inside my chest an ocean heaved and crashed and heaved again. "I would," he said. I saw his Adam's apple jerk as he swallowed. "Thank you." I was distracted by that thank you. We had moved past the language of formality long ago. It was strange to relearn it with each other.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.
~ Jay McInerney
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
~ Idries Shah
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
~ Gloria Steinem
Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
~ Orrin Woodward