Quotes About Instruction

We have to be taught to be good. It doesn't come natural.

Mrs. Corcoran ignored him. "I guess you can go ahead and bring in those ferns," she said to the delivery boy, eyeing the foil-wrapped pots with loathing.

The purpose of the Scripture is for instruction in righteousness. It was not written to teach you geology or biology. It was written to show man's relationship to God and God's requirements for man and what man must do to be saved. You can write this over the first part of the book of Genesis: "What must I do to be saved?

For this reason, Waldorf preschool teachers try to act in ways that are worthy of imitation and at the same time instructive. Rather than admonishing children to speak softly or work carefully, teachers model these behaviors continually.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Me agrada tu ignorancia, joven camarada, tiene más valor que la doctrina de los demás: tú, al menos no estás en el error, y si no eres instruido, eres capaz de llegar a serlo.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

In fact, I liked teaching because I liked telling other people what to do. In those days it seemed clearer to me than it does now that if I did something a certain way, it had to be right for other people, too. I was so convinced of it that my students were convinced, too.

His message was that educators must find a way to teach compassion and moral values apart from a religious context.

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

By how much He wants us to pay attention to His instruction so He can reveal His direction. Don't miss this. Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction.

facility to address the weakness in his left side. He cannot raise his left hand to his face, nor can he walk without a cane. Ten days after surgery, he is discharged and taken home. He is instructed to return to the rehab facility three times

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

Few things are as essential as education.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

A school's job [is] to begin education.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Education, education, education

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.