Fredrik Bajer

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Danish Writer

Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Swiss Artist

Vladimir Prelog

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Scientist

Porter Robinson

I think it's important to form a connection with an audience to a point, but I also feel like there's an instructive element to what you're doing. And I think it's necessary to challenge people.

American Musician

Paula Hawkins

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.

American Politician

Robert Shea

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

American Author

John Dewey

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

American Philosopher

Eva Chen

It's more instructive to learn what you don't like than just to like everything.

Taiwanese Businesswoman

George Clooney

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

American Actor

Gore Vidal

American Novelist

Use 'instructive' when you gain knowledge from an event or situation.

Teaching Moments

'Instructive' is used in both formal and casual contexts to show learning.

Not Always Formal

'Instructive' can refer to learning from both good and bad examples.

Positive or Negative

 we use to define the world and ourselves. When we think too highly of our thinking, when we think things are true just because we all say they're logos and stop adapting, we become the butt of jokes played on us by that wacky little trickster, chaos. Comedy conveys that destructive, instructive playfulness,

What's the definition of...

 the NSA's prism program what we don't think about are these sort of more subtle insidious technologies that infiltrate all different aspects of our daily lives how we live work and relate to one another and I think the trucker's scenario is really instructive in helping us to think through how those

Surveillance on and off...

 that produces fruits forever. He got the words right. He got the words right. Continuous improvement. There's a counterexample, which should be instructive as well. So you and I are both of an age where we remember the first oil embargo and the energy crisis that caused

How to decarbonize the...

 So, this is a very significant trend in the world today. China has become an empire of such mega cities. Each of which has almost a designated economic function in the global supply chain. And if you think about it, it's fascinating. It's very, very instructive