Instruction Quotes

• I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Instruction
  • Gave Up
  • Self-teaching

• Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Children
  • Education
  • Instruction

• When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Instruction
  • Spacecraft

• Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Food
  • Sex
  • Instruction

• Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Nature
  • Choice
  • Remains

• When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Peasants

• The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

  

  Plato
  • Part
  • Instruction
  • Reminded

• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Useful

• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Children
  • Minds
  • Stamp

• Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Routine
  • Disturb
  • Sabotage

• Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Education
  • Worthy
  • Instruction

• People hate to and will not read instructions.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Hate
  • Instruction

• Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Teacher
  • Instruction
  • Learner

• All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Mind
  • Vision
  • Instruction

• Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Patient
  • Instruction

• [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Time
  • Children
  • Direct

• I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Education
  • Destiny

• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Divine
  • Instruction
  • Palaces

• 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.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Blind
  • Instruction

• Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Book
  • Buddhism
  • Synthesizers

• These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Regret
  • Trees
  • Monk`s

• If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religious
  • Instruction
  • Declare

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

  

  William Blake
  • Instruction
  • Wiser
  • Tigers

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