I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need. "
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
