in reply to Give a fish or teach to fish?

You should read Should a Socratic Dialogue be attempted?, it's a very similar question and has some good answers.

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Re^2: Give a fish or teach to fish?
by ack (Deacon) on Apr 11, 2008 at 17:19 UTC

    moritz's response is, IMHO, incredible. It is not unlike the notion of "higher order functions." Here we're engaged in a discussion of inquirers seeking knowledge and how others engage the inquirer to provide the most beneficial experience, and moritz raises the bar: providing us with a higher-order direction that could teach us "is it better to give a higher-order fish or to teach us how to seek a higher-order method of fishing."

    Amazing! That appeals to a certain sense of Perl within me; thanks moritz.

    ack Albuquerque, NM