“Honey,” Jammer said, “you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.”
Spoken to Jackie, Ch. 28
Count Zero (1986)
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“You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
W. B. Ragsdale, "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn", in U.S. News & World Report (October 23, 1961), p. 72.
Additional information may be read at the following websites:
http://dakinburdick.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tell-me-and-i-forget/
http://www.quora.com/History/Where-and-when-did-Benjamin-Franklin-say-Tell-me-and-I-forget-teach-me-and-I-may-remember-involve-me-and-I-learn
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/word-badger/2013/mar/24/whose-quote-really/
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”
There is no evidence that Franklin said this. Scholars believe the saying comes from the Xunzi.
Additional information may be read at the following websites:
http://dakinburdick.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/tell-me-and-i-forget/
http://www.quora.com/History/Where-and-when-did-Benjamin-Franklin-say-Tell-me-and-I-forget-teach-me-and-I-may-remember-involve-me-and-I-learn
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/word-badger/2013/mar/24/whose-quote-really/
Misattributed
“Teach to learn. Watch yourself before you teach.”
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.55
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“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
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