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Teaching Learners to Fish

Friday, August 8, 2014

Use the learning experience to cultivate learners' independent problem-solving abilities.

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There is a well-known proverb that states, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." This proverb can be directly applied to training. We have two choices: Give our learners a fish, or teach them to fish.

When we give our learners a fish, we provide facts and data points that we believe are essential to their success, instead of train

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