A mind that is learning

What do we mean by learning? Is there learning when you are merely accumulating knowledge, gathering information? As a student you study maths science and so on ; you are learning, informing yourself about the subject. You are accumulating knowledge in order to use that knowledge in practical ways. Your learning is accumulative, additive. Now, when the mind is merely taking on, adding, acquiring, is it learning? Or is learning something entirely different? I say the additive process that we now call learning is not learning at all. It is merely a cultivation of memory, which becomes mechanical; and a mind that functions mechanically like a machine is not capable of learning.  Learning is something quite different. A mind that is learning never says, “I know” because knowledge is always partial whereas learning is complete all the time. Learning does not mean starting with a certain amount of knowledge, and adding to it further knowledge. That is not learning at all; it is a purely mechanical process. Learning is never cumulative. It is movement of knowledge which has no beginning and no end.