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Quotes About Instruction

One of the ways in which a good Christian marriage mirrors the divine is that, just as God's love overflowed into creation, so the love of man and woman should overflow into new life. The family is the "domestic Church" where parents preach the word of God to their children by example and instruction.30 It's a school of deeper and more fruitful humanity.31
~ Charles J. Chaput
Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.
~ Charles Martin
If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.
~ Charles Portis
Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.
~ Charles Schultz
Reinforcing the notion that a primary purpose of school is for students to develop conceptual understanding of complex material, the teacher conveys that it is not sufficient for students to be able to go through the motions, to follow a procedure without understanding why. No—they must develop conceptual understanding; it must build from one idea to another, and students should be able to explain to the teacher, or to another student, why something is the way it is.
~ Charlotte Danielson
We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of conscience. Then, by degrees, as we go on reading this world-teacher, lines of insight and beauty take possession of us, and unconsciously mould our judgments of men and things and of the great issues of life.
~ Charlotte Mason
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
~ Chaucer
You're supposed to be cooperating." "I am cooperating." "Wear the hat." "I'm not wearing the hat.
~ Chelsea Cain
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
~ Donald Knuth
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
~ Hannah More
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
When the students have no idea what is to be learned, and the teacher has no idea what is to be taught, no student learning can take place.
~ Harry K. Wong
If you can read this thank a teacher.
~ Harry S. Truman
You have heard it from me many times by now, but I will say it again—to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body. This
~ Harvey Penick
Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).
~ Lee Canter
We come to teach you a lesson, boy," Shitkicker #1 said, standing to Straker's right. "It's we've come," Straker said. "Now I've just taught you a lesson.
~ Lee Goldberg
Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.
~ Lee Thomas
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.
~ Lemony Snicket
He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.
~ Lemony Snicket
A mulher é privada de direitos porque ela é privada de instrução, e a falta de instrução provém da ausência de direitos. Não esqueçamos que a escravidão da mulher é tão antiga que muito frequentemente somos incapazes de compreender o abismo legal que a separa de nós.
~ Leo Tolstoi
When our characters show us the full fire of that inner battle, we have the makings of great fiction. For whether the choice is ultimately for honor or dishonor, we will see the consequences and the reader will be instructed without being taught.
~ James Scott Bell
The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!
~ James Turner
There it was, written down for her to follow: how to take that precocious mind and learn to be like everyone else.
~ Jan Davidson
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
~ Jane Austen