Do people learn from their mistakes?

Encyclopedia of Opinion

Question: Do people learn from their mistakes?
Position‹2 of 2: No, people do not learn from their mistakes

Those who hold this position argue that people largely do not learn from their mistakes: that the same errors recur across lives, institutions and generations, and that the mind is better at protecting a person's account of themselves than at revising it.

Supporting arguments · 2

The same mistakes recur too reliably for learning to be doing much work
A lesson can only be learned if the mistake is first admitted, and mostly it is not