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Quotes About Instruction

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
~ Richard Cobden
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
~ James Henry Breasted
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
~ Judith Martin
You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.
~ Jermaine Fowler
If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
~ Frank McCourt
When I tell a child something the first time, I'm nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.
~ Abby Lee Miller
The pope's instruction for priests to forgive may mean, in some cases, the difference between a woman staying in the Catholic Church or leaving for a more understanding and empowering church nearby.
~ Anthea Butler
As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.
~ Brett Favre
A lot of heroines ask me to make the dance steps easier.
~ Prabhu Deva
Rollin's works were not just records of events, but also instruction manuals about how to live, and especially how to acquire virtue.
~ Thomas E. Ricks
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
~ Thomas Kempis
God's revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.
~ Jay Kay
You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.
~ William Cavendish
It would seem that the story is ended, instead of begun; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ground of interest; but, to the more curious reader it shall be some slight instruction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances.
~ O. Henry
If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to skip this page.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Bu kadar kalabal?k bir ortamda öÄŸrenciye dersleri anlatarak deÄŸil ezberleterek öÄŸretmek haliyle daha etkili bir yöntemdir.
~ Orhan Pamuk
teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you
~ Orson Scott Card
Saber qué hacer con un batallón es fácil —dijo Ender—. Conseguir que lo hagan es lo difícil. ¿Por
~ Orson Scott Card
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~ Oscar Wilde
E' una questione personale. E' proprio questo l'effetto dell'istruzione. Rende il mondo intero qualcosa di personale.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
~ Dale Carnegie
I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock!
~ Wally Lamb
Jobs barked at him.
~ Walter Isaacson