Such a brilliant phrase. It is on the editorial page of the Globe and Mail this morning. I went looking for it to find out more, but it doesn't retrieve a definition. It retrieves interesting articles.
Lessons learned and unlearned from history Lessons taught, learned, forgotten and ignored History is not a teacher but a warden The Lesson(s) to unlearn from school - there are a lot of these articles
There is the unlearned lessons syndrome - it is about learned helplessness. But mostly unlearned lessons come under the history section or the psychology section. The psychology section wants people to detail their most difficult lessons they learned and the most difficult lessons they unlearned.
The Globe and Mail was pointing to the recent report on the COVID-19 pandemic. Using this phrase - the lessons of the pandemic lessons unlearned - certainly draws attention to it.
It would be great to find a "lesson unlearned" joke, but that is too sophisticated a topic. Jokes are by definition simple in content and theme. I did see this as the lead-in line for Reditt's Upjokes:
I taught my son a valuable life lesson by eating his homework. Tomorrow he will learn that many people will not believe you, even when you tell the truth.
That joke is a relief from all of the feel-good "Learn, Unlearn, Relearn" words and pictures out there.
Here's a picture from a few years ago. It is taken through the car windshield with heavy rain, causing the abstract shapes of the autumn tree.
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