Quotes About Instruction

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

You need to take language lessons from me, regularly and obediently, until I pronounce you cured.

Let there be the deep confession of our inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him; the childlike teachableness that waits on Him to instruct us; the simple faith that yields itself to the breathing of the Spirit.

This teaches us that no outward instruction, even from Christ himself, or His words in Scripture, can bring us the full blessing—until the Holy Spirit works it in us.

There is such a thing as a Pentecost still to the disciples of Jesus; but it comes to him who has forsaken all to follow Jesus only, and in following fully has allowed the Master to reprove and instruct him.

Shannon stopped prancing and tucked herself into a perfect sit. I smacked

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

The art of communicating instruction, of whatever kind, is much to be valued; and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required for this office, but render a man less fit for it.

ADMONITION  (ADMONI'TION)   n.s.[admonitio, Lat.]The hint of a fault or duty; counsel; gentle reproof.

From her instructions, I had an early notion, that it was much more noble to forgive an injury than to resent it: and to give a life than to take it.

Do you know hot to drive? he asked. Sure, she said. This one is the gas.