Black Quote by Theodore Zeldin

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class…

— Bobby Knight

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

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.…

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

— Anonymous

We cannot afford to lose talented young black people, who make it to university, overseas, or worse, to let other talented black people be…

— David Lammy

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

“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 think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

A teacher giving lectures without knowledge is like a beggar selling books on how to become rich.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Samuel Johnson

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne