Can you teach me to sew?  Can you teach sewing to me?

Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.

‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.

c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː
Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.

c1460, Cursor Mundiː
Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.

English

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks

don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep

don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs

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