The phrase "avoid learning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or behaviors that lead to not acquiring knowledge or skills.
Example: "Some students may choose to avoid learning by skipping classes or not engaging with the material."
Alternatives: "steer clear of education" or "evade knowledge acquisition".
'Information avoiders,' defined as those who take steps to actively and purposefully avoid learning about or being exposed to information, are often found to be overwhelmed by health risks that are perceived as threatening and avoid potentially distressing information about their medical condition (Miller, 1995).
It is impossible, though, to avoid learning the name of one girl.
or (b) deliberately avoid learning the details of the allegations against Savile to protect his own back?
In the group asked to examine their motives, only 28 percent chose to avoid learning their risk.
Contemplation had a similar effect: afterward, only 20 percent of the subjects chose to avoid learning more about their personal risk, compared with 53 percent of the controls.
Some said they tried to avoid learning the identities of their many contributors, though they conceded it could sometimes be unavoidable.
In their letter, the senators asked Sessions and Comey to assess whether the Trump Organization violated the law and whether it acted with "willful blindness," a legal term referring to a deliberate effort to avoid learning about potentially illicit activity.
A British Red Cross poll of more than 2,000 adults across the UK found that nearly two-thirds of respondents thought people avoid learning first aid because of the responsibility it carries.
By employing quick, superficial change programs leaders skillfully avoid learning the truth about poor coordination across vital activities in the value chain and the fundamental organization design, cultural and leadership issues that are blocking organizational effectiveness.
William B. Pollard III, a lawyer for Broadway National, said in the plea agreement that "at no time did the bank know, believe or suspect" that any of the suspicious deposits were derived from illegal activity or consciously avoid learning the source of the money.
While the reader cannot avoid learning some of the lingo of this tall ship - a Danish barkentine built in 1908 now transformed into a research vessel for the study of humpback whales - the jargon goes down as easily as freshly opened oysters.
