His whole life was spent in unlearning the prejudices in which he was educated.
The period of unlearning the Chinese methods, and replacing the Chinese plants, had to be lived through.
It takes a special effort and much unlearning of reactions to see them merely as things.
And are you not in danger of unlearning the civil liberties lessons of the last 30 years?
The next forty years of his life were spent in the desert, unlearning everything he had been taught.