And so now we need to remember a very wise maxim: A teachable moment only has value if you are willing to be taught.
The students, a handful of them Democratic activists, nod appreciatively at what the president might call a “teachable moment.”
I realize what clearly many others seem to forget—that not every moment is a teachable one.
It takes far less than 46 days for a teachable moment to devolve into an airing of fetid undercurrents from the American id.
When Obama heralds another “teachable moment,” it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
They are assured by the success of this book that agriculture is eminently a teachable subject.
Thus the great lesson of life is to practise the search for knowledge—and if virtue is knowledge it will be teachable.
Only be teachable, and you have already made much way in this philosophy.
Though she was a woman of very strong character and personality, she became as gentle and teachable as a little child.
There exist no teachers of it; and therefore we must conclude that it is not teachable.
