The phrase "a failure to learn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something does not acquire knowledge or skills from experiences or information.
Example: "The company's decline can be attributed to a failure to learn from past mistakes."
Alternatives: "an inability to learn" or "a lack of learning".
Years of mismanagement, under-investment and a failure to learn from the past have taken their toll.
The officer said cultural misunderstandings and a failure to learn the lessons of recent history contributed to miscalculations by American military and civilian leaders.
A failure to learn about people (or rats) of different kinds can mean that we fail to recognize their pain as genuine pain.
[See, for example, this link, or posts sprinkled among the entries in his blog, and the references therein.] But it's also the result of a failure to learn from experience; an insistence on "rebuilding as before".
The CQC's chief executive, David Behan, said: "A key concern has been the safety of the care – a failure to learn when things go wrong, or not having the right number of staff in place with the right skills.
India's underperformance can be traced to a failure to learn from the examples of so-called Asian economic development, in which rapid expansion of human capability is both a goal in itself and an integral element in achieving rapid growth.
We don't need appeals for bombs from liberals (whose calls for "precision strikes" display a remarkable failure to learn from 20th-Century military history) but pressure for a political settlement among all the Bosnian communities, a settlement that will necessarily involve compromise by each party and that could involve both temporary partition and confederation.
To this end, we conducted a devaluation test before overtraining to assess if OCD patients exhibit a general failure to learn that what was once dangerous is now safe.
For something so clearly standing on the shoulders of giants, there was a bizarre failure to learn the lessons of the past.
For example, patients with damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex can lose the coupling of bodily arousal with decisions; and even though they maintain normal intellect they suffer a recurrent failure to learn from negative feedback16.
Other challenges the course presents include maintaining a sense of fairness in the final product competition, so that students can move beyond the anger of a potential failure to learn from their experience.
