A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.