Alas, many of my students have picked up both assumptions and it's very difficult to "unteach" these tiresome habits of argumentation.    From Wordnik.com.  ["And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers] Reference

R.A. Dickey wants to unteach himself the knuckleball.    From Wordnik.com.  [K-Rod Is Last Stop On Mets' Ugly Bus] Reference

On this blog I guess it should be 'who can unteach a dog'.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dog Ate the _________?] Reference

We want to unteach the mis-taught to give change another chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The rebel himself has taught a lesson to the world, which he can never unteach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

As I said before, I am not sure you can teach innovation, but you can unteach it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Teaching Innovation] Reference

Euripus. 93 We do but learn, today, what our better advanced judgments will unteach tomorrow; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religio Medici] Reference

So, if politicized nomination processes unteach the view that courts are different, institutional legitimacy suffers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Dangers of Politicized Campaigns For and Against Nominees to the United States Supreme Court] Reference

His expectation of recurrence is based not on cosmic cycles but on the permanence of the irrational and unteach - able elements in human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY] Reference

I notice that a lot, especially in that one of the first things I have to do is unteach my students categorical/superficial thinking that the current elementary and secondary education systems indoctrinate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are folks linguistically retarded?] Reference

I must now state what the mistakes of medical men are, which I wish to unteach, and what instructions I have to give as to the management of the arm; for what I have to say regarding it, will apply to the other bones in the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Fractures] Reference

We should all get back to the night that bore us but since that is impossible a dream may be the only way: dreams of school, of travel, continue to teach and unteach us as always the heart flies a little away, perhaps accompanying, perhaps not.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Estuaries, from Casinos] Reference

Whom when this woman had entreated to vouchsafe to converse with me, refute my errors, unteach me ill things, and teach me good things (for this he was wont to do, when he found persons fitted to receive it), he refused, wisely, as I afterwards perceived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions] Reference

"I see they didn't unteach you ridin 'back east," said Mormon admiringly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rimrock Trail] Reference

For they both unteach the false and imperfect, and teach the true and the perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious] Reference

The new Izor said, more than once, that, having taught the fellow to carry the protector, he could not unteach him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nedra] Reference

"For the love of Mike, Carey," he went on, "tell me how to unteach that screeching thing of Bessie's, or we won't get a scene today.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Film Mystery] Reference

Is not this to place him outside the conditions of existence, and to unteach him that liberty for which we pretend he is being prepared?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime and Its Causes] Reference

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach to morrow; and Aristotle doth but instruct us, as Plato did him; that is, to confute himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religio Medici] Reference

During the summer months, players can fall into bad habits if their fundamentals are not locked in, causing delays when fall camp begins if coaches have to unteach poor habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

I have spent years teaching my children how to be responsible, how to hand in work on time, the importance of a job etc. and the govenrment seems to unteach this at every turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Even those who were careless as to the great truths which the Polynesians had to learn, must feel, upon reflection, that merely to unteach the brutal and defiling lesson of ages of darkness was to confer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific] Reference

They have also to resist many sinful habits which have become, as it were, a second nature; they have to disentangle themselves from a multitude of irreligious connections, whose opinions have hitherto ruled over them; they have to unteach even their own children many a false principle which they had taught them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.] Reference

It's difficult to 'unteach' hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Matzav] Reference

Anything we’ve been taught, we can unteach ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Commentators and Evolutionary Biology/Psychology] Reference

We want to unteach the mis-taught to give change another chance. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I don't think I should find it at all a bother to unteach you certain things. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Farringdons] Reference

I do believe, however, that when the writer within WANTS to move forward but the daily motivation just doesn’t materialize, it’s time to unteach the stone muse’s laggard ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Muse Whisperer] Reference

An inevitable logic would in a couple of generations unteach all tenderness towards human suffering if such horrors are endured, and carry us back into greater heartlessness than that of the worst barbarians. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

He, groping darkly among subjects which he hardly dared to touch in her presence lest he should seem to unteach that in private which he taught in public, had subtlely striven to make her believe that though she, through her faith, would be saved, he, the husband, might yet escape that doom of everlasting fire, which to her was so stern a reality that she thought of its fury with a shudder whenever she heard of the world's wickedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference

Algorithms unteach place value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: The soft bigotry of low expectations] Reference

True virtue can the crowd unteach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference

We, by art, unteach what Nature taught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearls of Thought] Reference

To unteach what the fox so well expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Our lives unteach the doctrine we believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

Will this unteach us to complain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Izabella's Blue] Reference

And it is a bother to begin to unteach you. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Farringdons] Reference