Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.
Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.
How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Resist. Unlearn. Defy.
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.