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To hear is to forget...

Posted by K. Mackay on November 17, 2009 at 14:07

Does anyone know if the following expression has any particular source: "To hear is to forget, to see is to remember, to experience is to understand".

(I read someone attributing it to Aristotle but as he believed intellectual musings to be the height of human achievement I rather doubt it).

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