The Ability to Learn

In order to teach somebody something, it is necessary that he be able to learn. If someone can’t learn, then he can’t find out how to do anything.

This is terribly fundamental. Yet all great successes are built on attention to fundamentals. Unless you can isolate these fundamentals, you leave your building with an incomplete foundation. You wouldn’t build any skyscrapers if you didn’t first put down a foundation. 

In learning, that foundation is, of course, the ability to learn. 

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The Study Handbook: Principles and Techniques for Effective Learning 
first edition 2019 
Published by Heron Books
Based on the works of
L. Ron Hubbard