You can fail to learn just about anything . This is where creativity enters the picture. People are generally afraid to be creative based on past experience when creativity is stifled in school. Creative thinking should be encouraged in the area of problem solving. Learners will teach themselves better than the World's Best Trainer .
Teachers tend to think they are more important to the learning process than they actually are.
People naturally teach themselves. Memorization Without Corresponding Experience is Worthless . Again, Schank examines the assumption that committing something to memory is learning. He states learners need to actually learn by doing - because then they memorize actions, not just words. Thereby, they are internalizing procedures.