Source: Herstory : Women Who Changed The World
“We teach best what we most need to learn.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You teach best what you most need to learn.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 40
Numbered fragments
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Critic as Artist
“Honey,” Jammer said, “you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.”
William Gibson book Count Zero
Spoken to Jackie, Ch. 28
Count Zero (1986)
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Narendra Modi. Prime Minister of India
Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar passes away at 95
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
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
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
