Book Quote by 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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Albert Camus

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

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

— Aristotle

“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

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

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.…

— Stephen Leacock

I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter…

— Emil Artin

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

— Michael Faraday

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

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