Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You about Diet, Thrift and Going Green

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Although not terribly complicated the idea being that trying to instruct your grandmother how to do this when she already knew (likely better than you) was rather futile.

For (fill in the blanks) industry in particular, the transportation of goods needs to run as smoothly as possible. The saying still survives despite the fine art dying out in our "civilized" and salmonella fearing culture. The Italian phrase cited by this dictionary is properly i paperi voglion menare a bere l’oche and means the goslings want to take the geese to drink. The Wikipedia page on "Teaching grandmother to suck eggs" (cited in a comment beneath the original post above in a comment by Matt E.Teaching ( your) grandmother to suck eggs is an English language saying that refers to a person giving advice to another person in a subject with which the other person is already familiar (and probably more so than the first person). If teachers are skeptical or cynical about being presented with ideas in CPD, it might well be because they’ve been burned too many times with egg-sucking presentations. In the case of emptying it, it was often to yield a mostly intact empty eggshell that could be painted… generally for Easter. c) They appear too obvious to be worth discussing or given any status – like we’re all a bit above describing our craft in functional everyday language. In any case, the Indians don't impute the practice to "old white people" or to "toothless white people" but to "the white people.

This proverb was used in Latin literature to condemn the presumption of stupid and ignorant people who would undertake to instruct those from whom they themselves should take instruction. To teach fishes to swimme; (an idle, vaine, or needlesse labour) we say, to teach his grandame to grope ducks. Non-personalized content and ads are influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing and your location (ad serving is based on general location).It’s up to us to give our prospects something they’ve never heard before—or never seen in quite the same way.

Even if people are new to hearing about his work, the ideas Rosenshine describes are absolutely not new.I clocked a twitter person recently protesting that, as far as they are concerned, ‘Rosenshine is patronising’. Just watch the tone; engage people in giving their perspectives before assuming they’re starting from zero. I remember my old schoolmaster, who was a prodigious great scholar, used often to say, Polly matete cry town is my daskalon. I still quote Rosenshine’s work, and subsequent replications of his work in more current terms – and I also quote your book, Tom! Most likely the meaning of the idiom derives from the fact that before the advent of modern dentistry (and modern dental prostheses) many elderly people (grandparents) had very bad teeth, or no teeth, so that the simplest way for them to eat protein was to poke a pinhole in the shell of a raw egg and suck out the contents; therefore, a grandmother was usually already a practiced expert on sucking eggs and didn't need anyone to show her how to do it.