Synonyms:
direction, instruction
Meaning: a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"
Synonyms:
education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational_activity
Meaning: the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"
Synonyms:
teaching, instruction, pedagogy
Meaning: the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
Usage examples
The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.
At a later time it was quite common among the Welsh bards to come over to Ireland to receive instruction from the Irish harpers.
There are schools for instruction in every branch of art and science which can be supposed to enter into the products of industry.
My instruction to the natives finally ripened into the following “You fella bring me fella big fella clam—kai-kai he no stop, he walk about.
As early as 450 B.C., when the laws of the Twelve Tables were promulgated, the girls of Rome received instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic.
In his genial way he proceeded to say (Forgetting all laws of propriety, And that giving instruction, without introduction, Would have caused quite a thrill in Society),
Many to whom they had been the turning point of a lifetime, felt the need of further help and instruction from the man who had awakened all that was noblest in their natures.
Her character and the violence of her disposition, intimidate me from making the attempt: she is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for intreaty, and too weak for reason.
In schools, those under instruction are too customarily looked upon as acquiring knowledge as theoretical spectators, minds which appropriate knowledge by direct energy of intellect.