Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

In addition to the research I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

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.

Concerning culture as a process one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry not culture.

Basketball in America is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning that creates the culture that acquires the culture and that responds to socialization.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Learning a foreign language and the culture that goes with it is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

In the transmission of human culture people always attempt to replicate to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning not DNA.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Considered now as a possession one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

My whole life I had been taught to read and study to seek understanding in knowledge of history of cultures.