📚 proverb • entry_id 50713
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dale un pescado a un hombre y lo alimentarás por un día; enséñale a pescar y lo alimentarás de por vida.
It is better to teach someone to do something themself than to provide the action's reward; education or training is more helpful than charity.
He certainly doesn't practice his precepts, but I suppose the Patron meant that if you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him…
It is an oft-quoted saying, and one full of social wisdom, "Give a man a fish, and he will be hungry again to-morrow; teach him to catch a fish, and he will be richer all his life.…
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