Instruction

“Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations.”

— Noah Webster (1758 – 1843)

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Instruction

/inˈstrəkSHən/

noun

1) the act, practice, or profession of instructing

“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)

2) imparted knowledge

“In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.”

— Dorothea Dix (1802 – 1887)

3) (in computer science) a machine code telling a computer to perform a particular operation

“If one wants to make a machine mimic the behaviour of the human computer in some complex operation one has to ask him how it is done, and then translate the answer into the form of an instruction table.”

— from Computing Machinery and Intelligence, by Alan Turing (1912 – 1954)