The phrase "avoiding learning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing behaviors or attitudes that prevent someone from engaging in the learning process.
Example: "His constant distractions are just a way of avoiding learning the material he needs to succeed."
Alternatives: "evading education" or "shunning knowledge".
Lives are being put at risk because people are avoiding learning first aid for fear of getting it wrong, a leading charity warns today.
His martyrdom video was certainly hard to watch, and there is a very strong case to be made that it breached YouTube's community guidelines, but I fear that by hiding it from public view, we may be end up avoiding learning about Rodger and his ilk's ideology, leaving ourselves ill-equipped to argue against it effectively.
Among Kaling's more literary revelations is her explanation of why she didn't learn to ride a bike until she was 12: "I had been successfully avoiding learning for years, mostly by making a big show that I couldn't be torn away from whatever book I was reading.
The policy at Archbishop Sentamu Academy has been designed to stop students from avoiding learning during class hours, the school said.
For example, the increase in BDNF levels in male PRS rats might have been developed as an adaptation aimed at avoiding learning impairments in spite of the reduction in neurogenesis.
Eventually I even started hearing about new girlfriends whose names I studiously avoided learning.
It is impossible, though, to avoid learning the name of one girl.
Oddly, during this long, strange love affair, I avoided learning much about Nietzsche's life.
In the group asked to examine their motives, only 28 percent chose to avoid learning their risk.
or (b) deliberately avoid learning the details of the allegations against Savile to protect his own back?
Mr. Haouari "either knew or consciously avoided learning the details of Mr. Ressam's plan to blow up the Los Angeles airport," the judge said.
