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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 etymology and life advice has been popular for a long time in fiction and media, according to Know Your Phrase, it originated in some form from an Anne Ritchie novel: Mrs. Dymond, published in 1885. It's mostly used on those that need motivation, have become lost on their chosen path, or someone who really needs to learn how to fish. The core message is mostly the same however, in that learning a skill is more beneficial to you long term than it is to never have learned it and let someone else do it for you. This trope is a classic Stock Aesop and Stock Phrase and has been parodied or twisted in works at least as often as it's used straight. |
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Gilmore Girls: When Luke's diner is closed for construction, Kirk sets up a pop-up diner in the park across the street. Considering Kirk is the reason Luke's is closed (he got blinded demonstrating Star's Hollow's first ever red light camera and drove into it), Luke is understandably upset. Kirk "apologizes" in the form of giving Luke a job application rather than any actual financial compensation, because he's from the "teach a man to fish" school. | |
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Quoted by Archer in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Mauraders", when deciding the best way to protect a colony of miners from being bullied regularly by a group of Klingons is to teach them how to stand up for themselves. | |
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This is invoked in Kevin & Kell when tigress attorney Mei-Li Lee was warding off a wolf who was offended by Kevin's lack of fear. | |
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Parks and Recreation: Ron Swanson: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish, and you feed yourself. He's a grown man. Fishing's not that hard." The Leader of the "Kaboom" playground-building team: "Take a man to Kabooming, and he Kabooms. Teach a man to Kaboom, and KABOOM KABOOM KABOOM!!" |
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Arrested Development: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish..." "... and he'll want to use your yacht, and I don't want this thing smelling like fish." | |
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Dilbert: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will buy a silly hat. And if you talk to hungry people about fishing, you are a consultant." | |
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In the Discworld novel Jingo: "Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." | |
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Total Drama: In "The Chefshank Redemption", Harold comes up with a bleak variation of the phrase: "Give a man a hole and what does he have? Nothing. But give a man a shovel and he can dig a hole to contain the nothing!" | |
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Parodied with the Pandaren in World of Warcraft | |
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The Order of the Stick: The title of that day's strip is, "Technically, the 'Fish' Version is a Subset of This One." | |
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Parodied with one of the "pearls of wisdom" dispensed by Beatrix Russell in Fallout: New Vegas: | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. | |
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Lola and Mr. Wrinkles: Namedropped in the "Randall the bone thief" story arc. Lola and Mr. Wrinkles express doubt whether Brutus can get Hugo to stand up to Randal. The cat suggests Brutus could take care of the problem himself. In answer, Brutus uses the expression...and absolutely confuses Lola. | |
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Parodied in My Gym Partner's a Monkey where during the planning to tame Adam back to his human self after turning feral from studying too hard, Jake speaks of this trope but with elephants and clowns (Give an elephant a spoon and you feed him a clown, teach the elephant to use the spoon and you feed him a circus)... and comes with the idea that to civilize Adam they need to teach him to use silverware. | |
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Young Hercules: The episode "Cold Feet" had Jason do this for a farming community he visited. They're regularly under threat from a group of bandits; past attempts to fight back have gone poorly, and the local government ignores their requests for help. There are too many bandits for Jason to fight alone, but he feels he's gotta do something. He offers to teach volunteers fighting moves he learned at Cheiron's academy, saying they have to do this for themselves and their loved ones. Many rally around him, but Pelia is critical. She points out Jason's just passing through and doesn't have to live with the consequences if things go wrong. Fortunately, things do work out. | |
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Parodied in DM of the Rings: Give a player a fish, and he'll probably try to sell it to an NPC fisherman. Teach a player to fish, and next week he'll show up with the book, The Complete Adventuring Fisherman. He'll start hunting for some monstrous leviathan to catch and enslave, and he'll be dual-wielding two fishing poles. | |
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Parodied in Fable II in a loading screen. Teach a man to fish, and he'll stink up the whole town. | |
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The aptly-named Odd Squad episode "Teach a Man to Ice Fish", while not having the saying quoted by anyone, revolves around the Mobile Unit attempting to boost the confidence of Arctic Mr. O and his precinct's agents, who don't believe they can solve a case regarding a villainess named Confetti Betty attacking people on their own and plan on relying on the Mobile Unit whenever they need a case solved. Opal and Omar in particular, who are assisting Arctic Mr. O, decide to let him take the lead in solving the case and fall back into a supportive role, but he consistently berates himself and even outright gives up at the climax. However, after watching a video clue Confetti Betty leaves for him and the agents on his mega-computer, he figures out the villainess's pattern and ends up being the one defeating her when the Mobile Unit cannot, which instills confidence in him and the other agents. | |
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Minecraft: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll stand at the top of a cliff, whisk pigs off the ground, and snipe them out of the air. On the subject of how incredibly addictive Minecraft can be: |
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In the second tutorial mission of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Qui-Gon Jinn offers this altered-for-the-setting variant: | |
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Superman: In the story "Peace on Earth", Superman tries to end world hunger by delivering food to impoverished places, but is met with resistance everywhere he goes and the food is eventually poisoned by a government that doesn't want his interference. He then remembers his adoptive father Jonathan Kent teaching him this quote. At the end, he is shown as Clark Kent teaching children how to farm. | |
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Used incorrectly in Negima! Magister Negi Magi by Asuna while fishing. | |
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As said by Minsc in Baldur's Gate, after giving money to a beggar: | |
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Mountain Time: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man some worms and you feed the fish, too. | |
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