Quotes About Instruction

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." ( Letter to A.F. Oeser , Nov. 9, 1768)

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.

The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach.

the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department.

What can I give for Your knowledge Of when to expand And when to contract— This instructed, more academic college Of when to act?

And I once heard Mr. William Hunt, who is one of the first artists, say to a class of teachers, "I shall not try to adapt myself to your various lines of teaching. I will tell you the best things I know, and you may make the adaptations.

Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.

President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.

It is not easy to change things in a footballer that other coaches told him were very good.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.

Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. . . . Keep me from lying to myself. . . . Help me abandon my shameful ways. . . . I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.

I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.