The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971).
1970s and later
“… it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.”
Variant: …it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
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American children's writer, academic, and architect 1929Related quotes

“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”
Source: The Analects, Chapter II
“Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it.”
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 133

“When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."”
Antisthenes, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics