"Instruction" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... how do we stand prepared for the task thus imperatively set us? We have the machinery for providing instruction and information, and for catching capable men, but both in a disjointed condition]—"all mere torsos—fine, but fragmentary." "The ladder from the School Board to the Universities, about which I dreamed dreams many years ago, has not yet acquired much more substantiality ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... shrugged his shoulders again. "And then, her manners! I do not understand English, but I know that her father was telling her to come down, and yet she went up. I do not know what education these foreigners have. Instruction, yes, as much as you please; but education, no. They have no more than barbarians. The father says, 'You must not do that.' And the daughter does it. What education is that? Of course, if they were friends of yours, I ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... propositions drawn up for the use of Prince Eugene, and was never intended to be made public. And, probably, the "Theodicee" would never have seen the light except for his cultivated and loved pupil, the Queen of Prussia, for whose instruction it was designed. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... forenoon conscientiously trying to teach Honey that the rests are quite as important to the tempo of a waltz measure as are the notes. Honey's talent for music did not measure up to her talent for coquetry; she received about five dollars' worth of instruction and no blandishments whatever, and although she no doubt profited thereby, at last she balked and put her lazy white hands over her ears and refused to listen to Bud's inexorable "One, two, three, one, two, three-and one, two, three." Whereupon ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... the gale, and the officer sometimes betrays a feeling of uneasiness, if at such a moment he should witness any violation of the received opinions of his profession. He finds himself in the situation of one whose ears have drunk in legends of supernatural appearances, which a better instruction has taught him to condemn, and who when placed in situations to awaken their recollection, finds the necessity of drawing upon his reason to quiet emotions that he might ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
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