Can we learn from experience?

[china]

Can we learn from experience?
Obviously not. Learning implies freedom, curiosity, inquiry. When a child learns something, he is curious about it, he wants to know, it is a free momentum, not a momentum of having acquired and of moving from that acquisition. We have innumerable experiences; we have had five thousand years of wars.
We have not learnt a thing from them except to invent more deadly machinery with which to kill each other. We have had many experiences with our friends, with our wives, with our husbands, with our nation—we have not learnt. Learning, in fact, can only take place when there is freedom from experience .
Your point of view................

 

[JLM]

Can we learn from experience?
Obviously not. Learning implies freedom, curiosity, inquiry. When a child learns something, he is curious about it, he wants to know, it is a free momentum, not a momentum of having acquired and of moving from that acquisition. We have innumerable experiences; we have had five thousand years of wars.
We have not learnt a thing from them except to invent more deadly machinery with which to kill each other. We have had many experiences with our friends, with our wives, with our husbands, with our nation—we have not learnt. Learning, in fact, can only take place when there is freedom from experience .
Your point of view................

Only stupid people don't learn from experience, average people learn from their own experience, intelligent people learn from others' experience.

 

[china]

JLM

Only stupid people don't learn from experience, average people learn from their own experience, intelligent people learn from others' experience.

So what you are saying is that the stupid ones don,t have to learn they already know -and they're the ones who pass it to the intelligent ones who in reality are the stupid ones 'cause they don't have their own experience ?I wonder what the average ones do with their experience according to your intelligent observation .

 

[Niflmir]

JLM

So what you are saying is that the stupid ones don,t have to learn they already know -and they're the ones who pass it to the intelligent ones who in reality are the stupid ones 'cause they don't have their own experience ?I wonder what the average ones do with their experience according to your definition .

You have invented the most complicated way of scratching your nose and ended up scratching your eye.

 

[china]

You have invented the most complicated way of scratching your nose and ended up scratching your eye.

Now that's intellectualizing Niflmir.Hahaha
Is that a free translation from German?

 

[JLM]

JLM

So what you are saying is that the stupid ones don,t have to learn they already know -and they're the ones who pass it to the intelligent ones who in reality are the stupid ones 'cause they don't have their own experience ?I wonder what the average ones do with their experience according to your intelligent observation .

NO- That's is not what I said at all.

 

[DaSleeper]

JLM

So what you are saying is that the stupid ones don,t have to learn they already know -and they're the ones who pass it to the intelligent ones who in reality are the stupid ones 'cause they don't have their own experience ?I wonder what the average ones do with their experience according to your intelligent observation .

NO- That's is not what I said at all.

Most intelligent people understood what you meant....;-):lol:

 

[Cliffy]

The only true way for an individual to learn is from experience, but humanity as a whole has learned nothing much as we keep on making the same mistakes. So yes, there can be intelligent individuals but humanity is as dumb as a post.

 

[taxslave]

If we could learn from experience we would never have another dipper government.

 

[Cliffy]

If we could learn from experience we would never have another dipper government.

Or a Gliberal government. But like I said, humans as a whole are dumb.

 

[gerryh]

Only stupid people don't learn from experience, average people learn from their own experience, intelligent people learn from others' experience.

So.....obviously the majority of mankind is stupid.

 

[Cliffy]

So.....obviously the majority of mankind is stupid.

Stupid is a good word too.;-)

 

[L Gilbert]

Can we learn from experience?
Obviously not. Learning implies freedom, curiosity, inquiry. When a child learns something, he is curious about it, he wants to know, it is a free momentum, not a momentum of having acquired and of moving from that acquisition. We have innumerable experiences; we have had five thousand years of wars.
We have not learnt a thing from them except to invent more deadly machinery with which to kill each other. We have had many experiences with our friends, with our wives, with our husbands, with our nation—we have not learnt. Learning, in fact, can only take place when there is freedom from experience .
Your point of view................

So you can't learn from experience? You've burnt your hand on a hot stove many times have you? Sliced yourself many times with something sharp because you don't know better than to do that? Do you walk out into traffic a lot?
lmao

 

[JLM]

So.....obviously the majority of mankind is stupid.

I wouldn't jump to say that exactly, BUT I do think the majority of those in control are stupid, the smart ones probably don't want to get involved unless they are sure they have a handle on things.

 

[JLM]

So you can't learn from experience? You've burnt your hand on a hot stove many times have you? Sliced yourself many times with something sharp because you don't know better than to do that? Do you walk out into traffic a lot?
lmao

Then there's the other issue of not being like the cat who suffers from the hot stove syndrome.

 

[L Gilbert]

Then there's the other issue of not being like the cat who suffers from the hot stove syndrome.

Huh?

 

[JLM]

Huh?

I guess you didn't hear about the cat who jumped on the hot stove, he didn't jump on any more hot stoves...........he didn't jump on any cold ones either.

 

[Liberalman]

Conservatives don't but most people do.

 

[L Gilbert]

I guess you didn't hear about the cat who jumped on the hot stove, he didn't jump on any more hot stoves...........he didn't jump on any cold ones either.

Nope, didn't hear that one. I am not surprised the cat would be tentative about jumping on any more stoves, though.

 

[china]

L Gilbert

So you can't learn from experience? You've burnt your hand on a hot stove many times have you? Sliced yourself many times with something sharp because you don't know better than to do that? Do you walk out into traffic a lot?

I also have had my first experience in breathing and have bin doing it ever since.
Gee your simple LG.
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