to instruct

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. Donald Knuth

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

The artist's aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. Sol LeWitt

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many. Seneca

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