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Quotes About Instruction

I studied secondary education.
~ Jim McKay
If your caddie coaches you on the tee, 'Hit it down the left side with a little draw,' ignore him. All you do on the tee is try not to hit the caddie.
~ Jim Murray
Aí me explicou: um senhor, no Palhão, na fazenda Nhanva, altas beiras do Jequitaí, para o ensino de todas as matérias estava encomendando um professor.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
the Torah was not an onerous rulebook or a vast catalog of laws as we might think, but a gift from God that taught them how to live.
~ Ann Spangler
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." JOHN 2:5
~ Anne Graham Lotz
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. PSALM 32:8
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
~ Anne Sullivan
To look at food and say that it is good will not satisfy a starving man; he must put forth his hand and eat. So to hear the Master's words is not enough; you must do what He says, attending to every word, taking every hint".
~ Annie Besant
The difference such minimal instruction made in participants' ability to recall information, they noted, was "striking": students who incorporated movement into their learning strategy remembered 76 percent of the material, while those who engaged in "deliberate memorization" recalled only 37 percent.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
That's your little mob in there,' said Grimes; 'you let them out at eleven.' 'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic. 'Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.
~ Evelyn Waugh
No, but–" There are no 'buts' here, Miss Cleary.  If you are to remain a lab assistant here – in fact, if you are to remain a student at this institution – you will follow the rules, or you will be out of here faster than you can blink your baby blue eyes.
~ F. Paul Wilson
He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.
~ Ferrol Sams
Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.
~ Amy Sedaris
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
~ Paul Engle
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
~ Zebulon Pike
The focus of the Christian life should be on Christ, not on self-imposed regulations. Our experience of Christ's lordship is dependent on our moment-by-moment attention to His instruction, not on our own regimented schedule.
~ Robert S. McGee
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
~ Robert Sternberg
That is half of teaching an apprentice: making sure the youngster learns what you said, not what she thinks you said.
~ Robin Hobb
When we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
On the other side was another woman with a garden and a tree. But for tasting its fruit, she was banished from the garden and the gates clanged shut behind her. That mother of men was made to wander in the wilderness and earn her bread by the sweat of her brow, not by filling her mouth with the sweet juicy fruits that bend the branches low. In order to eat, she was instructed to subdue the wilderness into which she was cast.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
We gather our minds to greet and thank the enlightened Teachers who have come to help throughout the ages. When we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to these caring Teachers. Now our minds are one.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?
~ Lois Lowry
What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?
~ Lois Lowry
Okay, Jennifer," said the first man, "you may go now." Jenny got out of her seat. "Jenny," the bald man called. Jenny turned slowly around. "Yes?" she whispered. "Next time, don't come to school on a Saturday.
~ Louis Sachar