A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. – Antisthenes

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. – Albert J. Nock