Quotes About Instruction

Since no such book existed, I have tried to write one for use in my own courses.

C. S. Lewis's discussion of storge, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life.1 He notes that he has "been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

So those who hear me and do what I say are like those intelligent people who build their homes on solid rock, where rain and floods and winds cannot shake them. MATT. 7:24–25 Train them to do everything I have told you. MATT. 28:20 The Course of Studies in the Master Class These words from Jesus show that it must be possible to hear and do what he said. It also must be possible to train his apprentices in such a way that they routinely do everything he said was best.

So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.

Aunque las luces estaban apagadas, Langdon notaba que todos estaban atónitos. Y él notaba un cosquilleo en su interior. Por eso se dedicaba a la docencia.

Dr Strauss said do anything the testor telld me even if it dont make no sense because thats testing.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

"Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord, I beg you, let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.'"

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught.

There is nothing very instructive, for example, in hearing that "the cow jumped over the moon," but who is not delighted by that poem's exuberant indifference to the possibility of making sense? It is a masterpiece. Even so, I am happy to know that some poems delight and instruct, which is a richer possibility.

Just so, an honest poet who is making a poem is doing neither more nor less than making a poem, I distracted by the thought even that it will be read. Poets, or some poets, bear witness as faithfully as possible to what they have experienced or observed, suffered or enjoyed, and this inevitably is instructive to anybody able to be instructed. But the instruction is secondary. It must be embodied in the work.

Typical conduct guides described how to stand (with feet turned out and one hand inside the waistcoat), to bow (with hat in hand, one knee bent and eyes downcast) and to walk (with head high and arms free) along with helpful pictures of the ideal poses, as well as detailed instructions on table manners and how to dance the minue

Now, Betteredge, exert those sharp wits of yours, and observe the conclusion to which the Colonel's instructions point! I instantly exerted my wits. They were of the slovenly English sort; and they consequently muddled it all

And finally there must be education—some technique, however primitive, for the transmission of culture. Whether through imitation, initiation or instruction, whether through father or mother, teacher or priest, the lore and heritage of the tribe—its language and knowledge, its morals and manners, its technology and arts—must be handed down to the young, as the very instrument through which they are turned from animals into men.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.

If you want people to change, you must provide crystal-clear direction.

When you want someone to behave in a new way, explain the "new way" clearly. Don't assume the new moves are obvious.

No," said Grace. "It's just right, right, left, left." "Correct," said Jake before Mr. Lyons could say "right" again.

She drove a hundred yards or so at this tentative pace before Nuno calmly reminded her she ought to be on the right.

good man's example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content,

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.