“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” --Chinese Proverb.

If you teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime you are giving that one person much more self worth than if you would have just handed him fish to eat every single day. What I think this quote is trying to teach us is instead of helping someone everyday of their life you should teach them how to be self sufficient. If you teach a man to fish he can survive on his own without being provided for, it also gives the man self esteem and a sense of accomplishment. Having fish always there to eat may be good for a while but man also needs to be valued for who he is.