Quotes About Instruction

What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't know any better, I would swear that you feel a compulsion to disobey authoriy figures." "That can't be what it is," she said. "Well, that's what it seems like." "But I don't view you as an authority figure." "Oh, not this again.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late.

Learn to obey before you command.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.