someone ( especially a child) who learns ( as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

One who learns; a scholar.

One who is learning.

One who is acquiring learning or knowledge.

This depends on the learner. – The Esperantist, Complete by Various

Down it went instantly to the knee, and over went the learner on his side, snapping the leg short off in the fall! – The Madman and the Pirate by R.M. Ballantyne

Men have commenced students at 40. Franklin always a learner. – The Young Man's Guide by William A. Alcott

Good, you are a quick learner- Paul! – The Red Symbol by John Ironside

A correct example will occasionally he admitted for the sake of contrast, or that the learner may see the quoted author's inconsistency. – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Flossy, during these days, took great strides as a learner in Christian work. – The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden

In his eighth year he began Latin, not only as a learner but as a teacher. – Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb

These are requisite for the information and direction of the learner; and these must be thoroughly impressed upon his mind, as the only means by which he can know exactly how much and what he is to understand by our words. – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

If his work is entitled to any degree of merit, it is not on account of a judicious selection of principles and rules, but for the easy mode adopted of communicating these to the mind of the learner. – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

When an individual, child or adult, seeks entrance at the doors of an educational institution, the only condition imposed is assurance of his desire to be a learner. – On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

The school gains its existence entirely in the soul of the learner. – The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

Those that add to their knowledge of the subject- matter a clear insight into the operations of their pupils' minds and also comprehend the fine art of fitting knowledge to the capacity of the learner, are the only real teachers. – Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux Martin G. Brumbaugh Marion Lawrance

A foreign language can not be properly acquired unless the learner has great opportunities for conversation. – Jacqueline, v1 by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)

He was naturally a quick learner, and now felt impelled by a double motive to prepare himself as well as possible to assume his new responsibilities. – Frank's Campaign or the Farm and the Camp by Horatio Alger, Jr.

Yet the very men who make this reply are, for the most part, unwilling to abandon the teaching of definite fallacies, known to be such, and instinctively rejected by the unsophisticated mind of every intelligent learner. – Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

Instead of being a humble learner in a mysterious world, he expects to find everything made after the pattern revealed to him in the Mount. – At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson