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Quotes About Instruction

Note here the close relation between reading and listening. If we ignore the minor difference between these two ways of receiving communication, we can say that reading and listening are the same art - the art of being taught.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Reading as Learning: The Difference Between Learning by Instruction and Learning by Discovery
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Don't stand there like a cretin," he said. "Take it.
~ Naomi Novik
A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. A mind so dominated may, at will, give the subconscious mind instructions, which it will accept and act upon immediately.
~ Napoleon Hill
Failure to read and comply with pertinent material. Your
~ Napoleon Hill
that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Guess you can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the bossy out of the teacher.
~ Carolyn Brown
Right he said Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.
~ Catherine Jinks
It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.
~ Flying Lotus
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.
~ Eric Ripert
The mere imparting of information is not education.
~ Carter G. Woodson
I've been doing the 'Mexican Made Easy' show, and it's very heavy on instructions. It's me talking to the camera.
~ Marcela Valladolid
Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.
~ Teri Garr
I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.
~ Thomas Armstrong
It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
~ Thomas Harris
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When Knowledge Went North (excerpt) As for us, We came nowhere near being right, Since we have the answers. For he who knows does not speak He who speaks does not know And The Wise Man gives instruction Without the use of speech.
~ Thomas Merton
For he who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know" (12) And "The Wise Man gives instruction Without the use of speech." (13)
~ Thomas Merton
There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
~ Kathleen McGowan
Deuteronomy 6:6, 7: These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
~ Kay Arthur
The rules are simple!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!
~ Keith E. Stanovich
Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
~ Keith Emerson
The way you organise teaching reflects what you consider important, and what you want to draw attention
~ Keith Johnson