Quotes About Instruction

They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors. Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land;

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

When we lose, watching a game tape is therapeutic for me because it brings clarity to what happened. And when we win it's fun and rewarding to see our guys do what we ask them to do.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

Some teachers refer to this as the 2-3-1 tool of emphasis, where the most emphatic words or images go at the end, the next most emphatic at the beginning, and the least emphatic in the middle, but that's too much calculus for my brain. Here's my simplified version: put your best stuff near the beginning and at the end; hide weaker stuff in the middle. Amy

A good deal of the corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance; it has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, it seems to me that much of the advice and instruction related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.

Worked examples are illustrations of how to complete a task—either a step-by-step procedural task or a more strategic task that involves critical thinking or problem solving.

Learning games are instructional environments that are entertaining enough to motivate play and educational enough to promote learning goals.

To qualify as practice, the learner must make some kind of behavioral response. For the purposes of formal training, that response usually generates a visible product—one that can be evaluated by the instructional environment.

The best approach to teaching procedural skills is a directive design. Direct instruction includes three core elements: explanations, as summarized in the previous chapter; demonstrations of skills; and student practice with feedback.

and in long illness; and to see clearly in a living example that the same man can be both most resolute and yielding, and not peevish in giving his instruction; and to have had before my eyes a man

In reading and writing thou must learn first to follow instruction before thou canst give it. Much more is this true of life.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.