� I'd be (and have been) honored to learn from you, if you have something to teach me. �
No one can teach the unteachable.
Saying "I'm teachable," no matter how sincerely one may say it, isn't always accurate.
Too often, it includes the secret attitude
if you can make me accept what you say.
The truly teachable are receptive, not resistant.
A drowning man is not picky about whether you toss him a cotton rope or a sisal rope, an old rope or a new rope, a half-inch rope or a one-inch rope.
A boy who
(a) doesn't know how to swim,
(b) knows that he doesn't know how,
and
(c) wants to know how
isn't inclined to argue with whatever the swimming instructor tries to teach him.
