Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.
I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.
I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. . . . I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.
In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.
The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction.
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.