We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

The rules you explain are less convincing that the ones you don't explain- or have to explain.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

They didn't put two and two together. They didn't even know what they knew. I don't know what's the matter with people, they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way — by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Informal learning is more difficult because you don't always know what you need to know

There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound to break them.

If you can't win, change the rules.

Most people blindly follow the rules. Many social rules were created at a time for situations that may no longer apply today.

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Rules are there for a reason. You are only allowed to break them if you are a master. If
you’re not a master, don’t confuse your ignorance with creativity or style.