To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To teach is to learn twice.
When one teaches, two learn.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.