instruction

[In*struc·tion]

Instruction is vital for education, as it is the transfer of learning from one person to another. Any time you are given directions or told how to do something you are receiving instruction.

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The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

Noun
the activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good teaching is seldom rewarded"

Noun
the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"

Noun
(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

Noun
a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"


n.
The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

n.
That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted

n.
Precept; information; teachings.

n.
Direction; order; command.


Instruction

In*struc"tion , n. [L. instructio: cf. F. instruction.] 1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: (a) Precept; information; teachings. (b) Direction; order; command. "If my instructions may be your guide." Shak. Syn. -- Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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Usage Examples

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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Other Usage Examples

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.

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.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

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