Instruction Quotes

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

First, God made idiots, but that was just for practice. Then he made school boards.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

You get a new coach; you do things a little differently.

Ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition.

Information is available freely on the Net, but what's missing is passion. And only a teacher can impart that passion and deep desire for excellence every day. Moreover, a classroom environment helps overcome certain psychological aspects, including inferiority complex.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

I was a teacher before comedy, but it was good because no two days were the same, which this job is too.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else. And root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.