Desks Quote by Woodrow Wilson

Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage…

— Parker J. Palmer

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

“surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have been personally victimized by organized disruption of a public lecture on a university campus - at the University of North Carolina at…

— Tom Tancredo

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's…

— Paul Beatty

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience…

— Frank Gehry

Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is a desire…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Anonymous

Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their dominion.

— Heather Mac Donald

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated…

— Dave Eggers

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

— John Gould

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at…

— Max Beerbohm