Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures…

— 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

I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive, problem-solving, and…

— Sal Khan

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

— Albert Camus

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

— John Gould

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

— Michael Faraday

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

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

— Aristotle

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no…

— V. S. Naipaul

Lectures often confuse our kids, but the example we set is crystal clear.

— Zig Ziglar

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