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unlearn Verb [-learning, -learned] or -learnt to try to forget something learnt or to discard accumulated knowledge
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Also, to succeed at the writing game, I found I had to unlearn about everything the teachers and professors of literature of the high school and university had taught me. Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially when, at the age of three years old, they are taken from the maternal care and taught to unlearn the old language -- except for the purpose of repeating it in the presence of their Mothers and Nurses -- and to learn the vocabulary and idiom of science. "I have a good deal to unlearn," she said, "but Mr. |
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