They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Einstein is supposed to have remarked that “education is what remains when one has forgotten everything they learned at school”.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words — not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

"In the words of Albert Einstein: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Some people there are who, being grown, forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. An adult is rarely successful in the undertaking — the reduction of experience to a set of symbols. For a thousand thousand years these humans have existed and they have only learned this trick — this magic — in the final ten thousand of the thousand thousand.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.