Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
Mots clés education learning school encouragement instruction
Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.
John LubbockMots clés science books education knowledge learning hate mind memory mistake teaching forget instruction facts worship importance confusion book-learning cultivation dry-facts lessons mental-food pupil strain tastes
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PlatoMots clés empowerment equality gender men women work instruction skills abilities jobs
For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.
LongusMots clés love passion inspiration beauty god instruction depression sickness treatment sight muses
[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their schooling, to provide them with exempla and received wisdom, so that they will remember this teaching when they come of age ... They accuse [women] of many ... serious vice[s] and are very critical of them, finding no excuse for them whatsoever.
This is the way clerks behave day and night, composing their verse now in French, now in Latin. And they base their opinions on goodness only knows which books, which are more mendacious than a drunk. Ovid, in a book he wrote called Cures for Love, says many evil things about women, and I think he was wrong to do this. He accuses them of gross immorality, of filthy, vile, and wicked behaviour. (I disagree with him that they have such vices and promise to champion them in the fight against anyone who would like to throw down the gauntlet ...) Thus, clerks have studied this book since their early childhood as their grammar primer and then teach it to others so that no man will undertake to love a woman.
Mots clés perception books love empowerment gender men women morality prejudice misogyny hypocrisy teaching instruction falsehood slander stereotypes double-standards clichés social-norms misrepresentation received-opinion
The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)
John GardnerMots clés books writing fiction authors instruction craft craftsmanship pulp-fiction technique pulp how-to-write genre-fiction how-to-write-fiction low-brow
We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction.
Israelmore AyivorMots clés success god suffer law instruction individual food-for-thought talents obedience obedient kingdom king special obey throne israelmore-ayivor eviction obey-the-law
Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.
Christian D. LarsonMots clés success knowledge power mind positive yourself instruction influence desire others capable stronger develop efficient impart
It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...
Stella PaytonMots clés harm caution danger warning instruction listen place guide position
If you want people to to think, give them intent, not instruction.
L. David MarquetMots clés thinking instruction leadership intent
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