Lesson
Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.
A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
To teach; to instruct.
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Lesson Quotations
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
Lewis Carroll
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
Lesson Translations
lesson in Afrikaans is les
lesson in Dutch is les
lesson in German is Lehrstunde {f}, Lektion
lesson in Italian is lezione, lezione
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