Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.