Concerning culture as a process one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
Diligent as one must be in learning one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry not culture.
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Learning has always been made much of but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
