Lecture Style Quotes

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

No one wants to be lectured at.

Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

We don't use PowerPoints.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.