Quotes About Instruction

Mr. Burke explained the rules of the duel to everybody.

and near the end instructed the Saints to "gether up your riches that you may purchase an inheritance" in the soon-to-be-revealed Zion.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy. Those books are located in the self-help section two aisles over, and once you've bought one, done everything it says to do, and found yourself miserable anyway, you can always come back here to understand why.

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.

For Confucius to take on a student he must sense a similar passion and commitment: "Those not excited I do not instruct; those not eager I do not enlighten. If I raise up one corner and they do not come back with three corners, I do not continue" (7.8). Confucius presumably is drawing on his own experience. Learning, he knows, can be difficult and the path long. Success demands desire and perseverance. It also demands true engagement and intellectual initiative.

Many teachers seem to believe their opinions are right, and therefore, all other viewpoints are wrong. And they are indoctrinating our children with their beliefs.

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

This strategy, in which the therapist instructs patients not to do what they're already not doing, is called a paradoxical intervention.

Those who can't do, teach.

You're a trainee, here to learn,' he said quietly, directly into the slightly pursed face. 'Therefore a certain teaching is necessary. Do you enjoy learning?' 'Yes, sir.' 'And how do you learn?' 'Sir?' 'The question is clear. Think about it, please, and answer.

At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

The Lord then brought to my remembrance that His Word did not say, Children, obey your parents only if they are born again. He explained, You are my Child; therefore, I place My wisdom and instruction in the hearts of your parents for your guidance and protection.

Cease, my son, to hear the teaching that induces one to deviate from the reasons of wisdom. – Prov. 19:27)

To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

Jesus instructs us to forgive our enemies and those who have hurt us. Forgiveness and letting go can lead you down the path of healing and peace.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.