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Quotes About Instruction

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
~ Winston Churchill
What did I tell you about plastic ties? Only for humans, Julie murmured.If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
~ Josh Turner
It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.
~ Pere La Combe
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.
~ Colman McCarthy
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
~ Garrison Keillor
There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
~ Paulo Freire
Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
~ Stevie Wonder
we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
~ A. S. Byatt
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
~ Havelock Ellis
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
~ Juan Cole
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
~ Charles Colson
Hang on there," the man cautioned, "you're still medium rare. I'm gonna cook you until you're charbroiled.
~ Will Hobbs
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
~ Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
~ Will Rogers
There are no rules for writing a play. It is easy, indeed, to lay down negative recommendations -- to instruct the beginner how not to do it. But most of these "don'ts" are rather obvious; and those which are not obvious are apt to be questionable. It is certain, for instance, that if you want your play to be acted anywhere else than in China, you must not plan it in sixteen acts of an hour apiece; but where is the tyro who needs a textbook to tell him that?
~ WILLIAM ARCHER
And they cannot be solid Christians, that are not instructed in the grounds of Christianity. The
~ William Gurnall
Joule wrote later in his autobiographical note, "Dalton possessed a rare power of engaging the affection of his pupils for scientific truth; and it was from his instruction that I first formed a desire to increase my knowledge by original researches.
~ William H. Cropper
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
~ David Brooks
By such means as the inculcating of parental instruction, the institution of classes for the children and young people of each congregation, the Church of Christ must seek to do the duty which she undertook when she received these little ones into the fold of the visible Church. She is not at liberty to make over her duty into the hands of parents, any more than parents are to throw over their responsibility on the Church. The
~ David Dickson
What they need to know is, to lean right, push on the right grip; to lean left, push on the left grip. If
~ David L. Hough
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.
~ Catherine McAuley