The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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.
Learning is finding out what you already know.