Lasker on Learning Quote

            Today, I re-read parts of a book that I bought probably at least 10-15 years ago, Lasker’s Manual of Chess. Lasker was the chess world champion in the early 1900s, was a person of the Jewish faith, and left Germany in the late 1920s or early 1930s in response to the rise of the Nazi party. Of the parts that I read, and I really enjoyed this line, “Of my 57 years, I have applied at least 30 to forgetting what I learned or read.” In this quote, I think Lasker has an idea similar to Albert Einstein’s, who said, “Education is what is leftover after one has forgotten what one learned in school.”