Social learning may refer to:
- Observational learning (psychology), learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in ones environment or other people.
- Social learning theory (criminology), a theory of crime that asserts that humans learn deviant behavior from their peers.
- Social learning (social pedagogy), a theory of education that acquisition of social competence happens exclusively or primarily in a social group.
Famous quotes containing the words social and/or learning:
“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)