Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he stops voting for the Free Fish party.
Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime
huh? I get to choose whether or not I can feed a person for only 1 day or for an entire life, day in and day out?
So I teach a person to fish but that person does not want to fish. And so that person returns to me and asks for fish. What should I do?
But I give the man a fish and I'm freed from any near future obligations? Is that what this is saying? Maybe it suggests that if a person is taught how to fish, that person can fish for himself everytime he is hungry. Yes! I think that's it.
So I learned how to fish. I was taught how to fish. But after that on the second day, I fished, caught fish, and looked at it wondering what to do with it laying on the shore. How do i eat this fish now, I asked? I was taught how to fish but I was not taught how to prepare the fish.
The proverb goes on.. And so I was taught how to prepare the fish. Descaling, definning, degutting, etc... But then what? Sashimi style? Where's the Wasabi sauce?
And so I was given Wasabi sauce. I ate for a day. When I get taught how to make Wasabi sauce, I might eat for a lifetime!!!
I had to learn 5 things to eat for one day after I was taught how to fish.
1. To fish
2. To wonder what to do next
3. To descale, defin, degut
4. Needing wasabi sauce
5. Needing to learn how to make wasabi sauce
The Wonderful part though is that I no longer need to rely on others to bring me a fish since someone was kind enough to teach me all of these things, hopefully in the same sitting.
Proverbs 15:32 "He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul:..."
If I had refused 'instruction' to the above 5 things, I would not have eaten lest another brought me fish for the day.
So you might not 'stone' your child for wrong doing, but what DO you do? Bring your child fish for the day?
Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
But some might say, 'This is Archaic! It has no validity to today's time'.
And what they say could be true.. It's a matter of personal 'interpretation', right?
After all, if the majority says so, it must be.
So where will the 'learning' come from?
If I never am taught how to write a 'check' for a form of payment, how will I ever pay any bills other than typing in card numbers?
Besides, don't you find it kind of 'fun' to teach your kids how to write checks?
i mean after all, you love your kids.. You don't want to 'train' them or 'discipline' them. But keeping the 'joys' away also? What kind of 'love' is that?
Love is not only to 1 other. That is intimacy. Love is to many others also. And often times, the 'majority' should be respected as far as to the 'common' good within those places.
When the 'majority' is as 'free' to do as personal will desires, then things of 'establishments' can become endangered. And when the 'establishments' begin to crumble, a person might ask what the purpose of their 'life' might be.
The first 'set' of immigrants entering in, the parents, are the 'establishments' of their family, whether it be to the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation. 5th generation and onward is reaching back into the late 1700's and earlier. The very first settlers would be the First Generation [of U.S citizens]/[Colonists]/[etc]. Before that, there were 'generations' to the Natives.
