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He said as much sourly to McNeil. "Base has pulled back three other teams," McNeil replied. "But the men have to go to school again, and they won't be ready to come on for maybe three, four weeks. To change runs means unlearning stuff as well as learning it " "What about new men?" "Don't think Kelgarries isn't out now beating the bushes for some!
If Thomas was right in this, then certainly he himself was one of his offspring. If he was wrong, then there was much well worth his unlearning. The prayer was soon over, and the company again seated themselves, waiting till the coffin should be placed in the hearse, which now stood at the door. "We'll jist draw the cork o' anither boatle," whispered a sharp-faced man to his neighbour.
People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them.
Hanky looked black at this, and George trod lightly on my father's toe, but he told me that my father's face was innocence itself. "These are hard sayings," said Dr. Downie. "I know they are," replied my father, "and I do not like saying them, but there is no royal road to unlearning, and you have much to unlearn.
I was very happy at Cambridge; when I left it I thought I never again could be so happy anywhere else; I shall ever retain a most kindly recollection both of Cambridge and of the school where I passed my boyhood; but I feel, as I think most others must in middle life, that I have spent as much of my maturer years in unlearning as in learning.
Yes, surely I had been asleep and had woke up; but no! alas, no! I had not been asleep at least not in the old church if I had been asleep I had been walking in my sleep, struggling, striving, learning, and unlearning in my sleep.
"All the technique you have got, you know, is wrong from beginning to end, and you mustn't mind unlearning all that. But you've got the thing that matters." All this stewed and seethed in Michael's mind as he sat that night by the window looking out on to the silent and empty street.
The remainder were of that class of illiterate and unlearning quacks who physic and blister the poor whites and negros in the country districts of the South; who believe they can stop bleeding of the nose by repeating a verse from the Bible; who think that if in gathering their favorite remedy of boneset they cut the stem upwards it will purge their patients, and if downward it will vomit them, and who hold that there is nothing so good for "fits" as a black cat, killed in the dark of the moon, cut open, and bound while yet warm, upon the naked chest of the victim of the convulsions.
This, I tell you, was for him the first axiom of wisdom, 'Meditation is learning, speech is unlearning. His disciples, however, did not refrain from speech all their lives, nor did their master impose dumbness on all for a like space of time.
Welby shrugged his shoulders. "Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn. For the rest, as I have ceased to be a critic, I care little whether I was wrong or right when I played that part. I think I am right now as a placeman. Let the world go its own way, provided the world lets you live upon it.
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