...classroom. Dr. Johnson meant something like this when he said, in commenting upon the lecture system: "I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as...reading the books from which the lectures are taken." Stephen Leacock apparently wished to convey the same idea when he declared, with avowed seriousness,...

...emphatic about the futility of lectures. ("People have nowadays got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. You might teach making of shoes by lectures! "). It is...

...LECTURES Talking of education, " People have nowadays (said he) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by Lectures. Now, I cannot see that Lectures can do so much goodas reading the Books from which the Lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught...

...As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, "People have now-a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much 1 [On the iron crown, see Mr. Steevens's note 7, on Act iv. sc. i. of RICHARD III. It seems to be alluded...

...full of phonographs holding up their brass trumpets." EE Slosson, Great American universities, p. 520. do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that may be taught by lectures except where experiments are shown. * * * Lectures were once useful, but...

...852014 X (Pbk) Printed in China PREFACE People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...reading the books from which the lectures are taken. DR. JOHNSON (1766) SINCE the first successful detection of nuclear resonance signals late in 1945,...

...has been for most peoples in most cultures throughout history. CHAPTER 1 Writing and Written Culture I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as...reading the books from which the lectures are taken. - Samuel Johnson Access to phonetic writing constitutes at once a supplementary degree of representativity...

...it, saying, "I refute it thus".' In Boswell Lift- of Johnion 6 August 1763 25 People have nowadays got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. Ernest Jones 26 Whenever an individual...

...he published; he wrote as he spoke. Eric Rogers would surely have agreed with Samuel Johnson that, 'I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown.' In the last talk I heard him give, at a GIREP conference held in the Netherlands in 1984, he began...

...potentially larger audience than someone who only conveys ideas in a classroom. As Samuel Johnson quipped: "Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown."10 Simply put, students do not have to be told things in order to learn them. A credentialed...