We know a good deal about how people actually learn, and almost nobody is ever taught it.

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• Most people could do the learning behind such a book; it takes curiosity and real interest, not special talent PBPeter Bevelin17 Oct 2007
• We know the attributes of things, never their real substance INIsaac Newtonc. 1713–1726
• That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental. ISIlya Sutskever25 Nov 2025
• Education can raise how much everyone knows, but it almost never changes who is ahead of whom. FDFreddie deBoer8 Sept 2025
• The more we learn about the world, the clearer our knowledge of our own ignorance becomes KPKarl Popperc. 1963–1968

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