Listening Quote by Sal Khan

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

— Ramakrishna

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from…

— Virginia Woolf

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures…

— Stephen Leacock

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity ……

— Anonymous

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend…

— Daniel Coit Gilman

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or…

— Stephen Fry

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

— Scott Thompson

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can…

— Sebastian Thrun

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

— John Gould

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other,…

— Theodore Zeldin

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

— Antony Hewish