It also suggested that more than a third of adults - 36% - would be interested in attending free classes with police officers and volunteers to learn about combating anti-social behaviour and how to avoid danger when walking home alone.

BBC: Anti-social behaviour: Two-thirds would 'walk on by'

Unfortunately for anti-reformers, this does not mean we simply learn to love the status quo, but instead we need the freedom and experimentation that markets and choice provide.

FORBES: School Choice vs. High-Stakes-Testing

That would allow a tumour to be destroyed cell by cell probably not a practical anti-cancer therapy, but something which would allow researchers to learn more about how cancer cells interact with one another, and thus reveal their vulnerabilities in a way that was previously unimaginable.

ECONOMIST: Modern X-ray technology

Anti-aging is a new field and most doctors are not trained in hormone therapy, so they learn as they go from pharmaceutical reps and the latest published research.

CNN: Baby boomers find youth in testosterone

We learn about everything from the Elgin marbles to Edmund Kean, by way of body-snatching and anti-slavery protest.

ECONOMIST: Literary table-talk

If Mr Hazare's movement goads the government into bringing out a firm anti-graft law - the jury is still out on that one - and both he and the politicians learn their lessons from the experience, it would have served its purpose.

BBC: Has Anna Hazare's campaign run its course?