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couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel

(Someone) is utterly incompetent or stupid; (someone) can't even manage or carry out the simplest of tasks. A: "Did you hear that Zack took the train home last night and left his car in the parking garage at work?" B: "I'm not surprised. That dummy couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel!" The leaders of this country couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. What makes you think they can overhaul the entire tax code?

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couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel

(Someone) is utterly incompetent or stupid; (someone) can't even manage or carry out the simplest of tasks. A: "Did you hear that Zack took the train home last night and left his car in the parking garage at work?" B: "I'm not surprised. That dummy couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel!" The leaders of this country couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. What makes you think they can overhaul the entire tax code?

See also: boot, heel, instruction, of, on, out, pour, water

follow instructions to the letter

To follow a set of instructions exactly as they were written or described. If you don't follow the instructions to the letter, your application won't be considered. A good soldier must be able to follow instructions to the letter. Otherwise, they could put their entire unit in danger.

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A direct instruction approach is a learning process, a method and a model that designs, prepares, presents, deals, and manages several organized steps, procedures, and techniques, and even the amount of time that lapses from initiation of its purpose to the results of instruction.

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In most recent years, the rapid increase to incorporate technology into the curriculum in institutions of higher education has led tenured professor's to question the effectiveness of traditional instruction. The use of technology or web-enhanced courses is up-and-coming as the most common method of instruction in most institutions of higher learning.

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If passed, SB 96 would require the Utah State Board of Education to "establish certain curriculum requirements and policies relating to instruction on theories of the origins of life." In particular, the bill states that "if instruction is given to students on any theory regarding the origins of life, or the origins or present state of the human race, then that instruction shall stress that not all scientists agree on which theory is correct." Nor, continues the bill, should the instruction "endorse a particular theory regarding the origins of life or the origins or present state of the human race." Nowhere in the bill will you find the term "intelligent design," but that theory certainly comes to mind when one mentions "alternative theories of the origin of the human race."

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Clearly the situation should not be viewed as an indictment of this prestigious conservatory and the quality of instruction it provides.

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To explain such phenomena, Baron and Galizio (1983) have suggested a twofold effect of reinforcing instruction-following behavior: The particular behavior specified by the instruction is reinforced, but instruction-following as a class is also strengthened.

Interactions of contingencies, instructional accuracy, and instructional history in conditional discrimination