We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference unmixed with considerations of a different order.
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
Surely if knowledge is valuable it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
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.
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.
The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge 'tis born with us and is inseparable from our Being but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
In my view the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction but pursues you never.
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.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go but without the discipline of real life they remain of the nature of theory only.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent not genius not inventive mental powers.