something about teach me and ill learn, but show me an ill remember always , or something like that. i know i butchered it really bad.
2007-02-11 04:31:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle
2007-02-11 04:41:33 · answer #1 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Variations with some humor from Fish, Fishing, and Education (mostly)
Fish: The basic concept: (Process over Content)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese proverb. The International Thesaurus of Quotations, ed. Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 76, no. 3 (1970).
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life. Kwan-Tzu
If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish he will eat for a lifetime. If you teach a child to fish he may feed the world.
"So long and thanks for all the fish." -last ever dolphin message before the destruction of the earth. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams.
Level 1 variations (fishing and other areas of study)
Religion
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man religion and he'll starve to death praying for a fish.
It is incredible that Christ should have risen; It is incredible that men so unaccomplished, so rude and lowly, should have convinced men of something so incredible and convinced them so conclusively. What is really hard to believe is the way the world came to believe. The fishermen whom Christ sent out were men unversed in the liberal arts, with no skill in language, armed with no rhetorical power. Yet they landed fish of every sort, not excluding those rare specimens, the philosophers. Three incredibilities are involved. The skeptics, of course, will shy at the first incredibility; but the second they must believe; and if they reject the third, they have no explanation of a manifest fact. - St. Augustine
Economics
Modern Economists' corollary: Teach a man to create an articifial fish shortage, and he eats *steak*.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you get rid of him on weekends.
Sell a man a fish, and he can eat for a day, teach a man to fish, and you lose a great business opportunity? Karl Marx
Teach a man to fish and you've given him an excuse to dodge work for the rest of his life.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks! Dixie in a post to BESTWEB.
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright
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2007-02-11 04:52:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This was a quote by Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist philosopher and founder of Taoism. (600 BC-531 BC)
This means if you just give someone the information then he may remember it until the test is over. Teach him how to get the information and he will be able to do it for the rest of his life.
Similar to you. If you do not search for the answer then how will you remember it?
2007-02-11 04:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by Catie I 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
That's the quote. Don't know who said it though...
2007-02-11 04:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by Omni D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's not really a quotation, it's more of a proverb, so I don't think any single person is credited with it...
2007-02-11 04:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by lalalauren 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋