Careful Words

instruction (n.)

  The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

  All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Letter i. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. v. p. 311.