Quotes About Instruction

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational

matter to the test. Starting with a simple command—one that most dogs were capable of understanding and acting upon, sit—he stood in front of Martin, said sit in such a way that the position of his lips was exaggerated, and then pressed firmly on Martin's hindquarters, forcing them down. Martin looked up at his owner in mute incomprehension.

Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord's "discipline and instruction.

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

Most professional beliefs, especially Christian religious beliefs, are taught through formal, usually verbal, instruction. Such formal instruction may be devoid of personal experience to match the verbal teaching. . . Just as the instruction is verbal, the learner's profession of the belief is verbal.

the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Being extra cautious is just part of the covert operative instruction manual." "Good," said Allie. "Caution is just the quality I'm looking for in the man handling my personal security." The commander laughed. "I'm even willing to sleep in the same bed with you for added protection. Now that's going the extra mile.

The school would have large classrooms, with up to one hundred students and four teachers in each classroom. The students would often work collaboratively, mostly in teams of three or four. And the teachers were expected to work with one another in leading the classes.

Above all, it is necessary to recognize that knowledge cannot be pumped into human beings the way grease is forced into a machine. The individual may learn; he is not taught.

boys must be instructed on how to grow up into glory and how to fulfill their responsibility to be representative, responsible, and holy.

True independence of mind exists where there can be disagreement without demonizing the one you differ with. And this cannot be done unless you let Scripture instruct you on how to distinguish things that are of first importance and things that are of much lesser importance.

More frequently, when husbands lose an understanding of the cross, they come to the point where they do not instruct their wives in the Word at all. Of course, as the head of the wife, an ignorant husband continues to teach, but the lessons have to do with how Christ is more interested in Monday Night Football than in communion with His bride.

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

obeying the Admiralty instruction which said only that a man "claimed" the woman as his "wife," with no limit on the number of ports in which the man could have a "wife").

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Thus, to orient means to point somebody in the right direction. In story, that somebody is the reader.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience.

After a few seconds, she opened one eye and glanced at her fellow teachers. "What do I do next?" she asked earnestly

Look at this." He pointed to a star-shaped crack on the windshield. Gies looked. He did not touch. Orders had come down from Chief Rowley to cover SS-100-X without touching it.

Questing is hard. Fortunately, Thomas is here to spoon-feed them answers. We're one step away from him giving them an instruction sheet by Ikea, with cartoonish diagrams and a little goddess-slaying allen wrench.

It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts of burden, but, as Helen Flight has pointed out, of what use are table manners to those without tables.