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.
“This is a teachable moment for the White House,” Garrett said.
Virtue is no sooner discovered to be teachable, than the discovery follows that it is not taught.
She was quite a little lady, so gentle, teachable, and well mannered.
I see it does indeed need to be approached in a teachable spirit.
Nor does Protagoras deny that men are teachable and modifiable.
Yet there are opposing reasons, showing that it cannot be teachable.