what does this qoute mean?

Question

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself” – Galileo Galilei.

Answer 1

you can only tell someone something if he wants to hear.

Answer 2

This quote is close to the Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I think Galileo meant that we are better off facilitating than doing the other person's task; this way in the long run he/she learns how to do things themselves under different circumstances. Hope this answers it.

Answer 3

You cannot teach a man because a man only learns from himself. If someone teaches him, that someone is only giving him information, it's up to that man to accept or decline knowledge.

Answer 4

You provide the information, instruction, directions, visual examples, and/or actions to be imitated or followed to a person and that person has to absorb it, think about it, or do it himself to learn. The teacher is just the deliverer.

I teach children.

Answer 5

You can repeat something over and over to someone. you can try to drill it in their head, but once they figure it out themselves, then he has truly learned it. He has to make himself understand it. Think about math. You know that feeling you get when you had something you thought you'd never understand and then all the sudden you get it and it's like "Oh!....This makes since, now!". Kind of like that, but it applies to other things as well.

Answer 6

It means, "the ability to comprehend and understand, feel, process ones own hearts feelings, comes from within"

ignorance is curable via the learning process, stupidity is permanent.

The most heinous evil is not the crime committed, but the failure to do the good one may have done. *Blaise Pascal

Answer 7

That a person has to have the desire to learn. Without it, you cannot teach them anything. You can present the idea, but unless the person is willing to accept it nothing is learned.

Answer 8

Another way of saying, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink". A person can only be taught when they want to learn.

Answer 9

It means you can only teach the man to search for his knowledge and retain it.

Answer 10

To me, I think he means that there is no certainty to anything - only the value you give to something. Each of us wear different glasses ..... depending on our experiences. Perhaps everything means something different to you - something I cannot see.

Good quote!

Answer 11

That means u can't make a person interested in somethin he.z not.. U can only do so if he has de least interest atleast..