Learning
The question of whether paramecia exhibit learning has been the object of a great deal of experimentation, yielding equivocal results. In an experiment published in 2006, the authors, by using a voltage as a reinforcement, concluded that Paramecium may indeed learn to discriminate between different brightness levels.
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Famous quotes containing the word learning:
“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)