Learning is a crucial activity in a human culture. The very existence of a culture depends on the ability of new members to learn sets of skills, norms of behavior, facts, beliefs, and so on. People create educational institutions devoted to learning and invest a substantial fraction of their resources in them. They spend a large proportion of their lives not doing, but rather learning to do. Of course, humans have no monopoly on learning.
Primitive creatures are capable of some d egree of learning, as are certain computer programs today.
However, the human capacity for learning is unmatched by that of any other living or artificial thing. Learning and Memory. He once talked of the speech-making art. Experienced speakers, he said, know that the best and most telling s peech is not the actual impromptu speech, but the counterfeit of it. You may teach this class anytime.