Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

— 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

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

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

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

— John Gould

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

Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled;…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Albert Camus

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

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

— Aristotle

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B.…

— Louis Auchincloss