instruction quotes

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.