Quotes About Instruction

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

By education most have been misled.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

My teaching is my legacy.

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

If my mama said not to do something, I didn't do it.

Each manager has their own ideas that they want to get across to the players, and how to do it.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

I hate having to read the manual.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.

Whenever you see hand-lettered signs pasted on doors, switches, or products, trying to explain how to work them, what to do and what not to do, you are also looking at poor design.

Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.