"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight." — Aristophanes

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• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if… — Saint Augustine
• My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they… — Phil Jackson
• You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within… — Mario Vargas Llosa
• You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare
• If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it. — Percy Cerutty
• You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the… — Swami Vivekananda
• Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men… — John Toshack
• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it,… — Oscar Wilde
• A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning — Carl Rogers
• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky
• It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. — Confucius
• We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. — Sasha Azevedo

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