The Missing Link

Email from my mother the other day:

"Hey,
I remember what I wanted to tell you the other day. President Farnsworth, at ward conference the other day, came up with the solution for your feed a guy a fish thing. He said if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, if you teach him how to fish, he eats for a lifetime,and if you teach him how to love to fish, he will feed the whole village. There you go, this was the missing link. Talk to you soon. Love, Mom"

there you go.

There's a time to give and a time to teach

See, I don't really agree with the saying "If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for life." Or rather, I don't agree with the conclusions drawn from this saying--that you shouldn't give people things, you should teach people things.

I mean, if you are giving a guy a fish every day, eventually he's going to turn around and ask you, "Hey man, where are you getting all the fish?" And then you teach him.