I hate lectures

In my final year in college--that's back in 1999--I realised how much I detested lectures. I mean, it's just stupid to pretend that a bunch of people in a room may learn something from someone who claims to know more than them. No way. In my case most of the learning took place in my own time, not in the classroom. The good thing about being PhD student is that it is by far a lone effort and there are no darn lectures to take. However, I sometimes wonder how I managed to survive 18 years of stupid lectures.

I guess the idea of lectures is based on the paradigm that learning is mostly a group enterprise. What a rip off.

I can't stand studying/lectures. If people want to learn they should do it in their own time. One of the reasons everybody has to be enrolled in some form of education is probably because so many people are too lazy to learn anything on their own accord.

I suppose it may be a good idea for some people, but I've always learnt best through my own pursuing.

In my final year in college--that's back in 1999--I realised how much I detested lectures. I mean, it's just stupid to pretend that a bunch of people in a room may learn something from someone who claims to know more than them.

Your not learning from the teachers experiences if the teacher gives lectures straight from the book. I hate lectures from the book also. I can read the book myself at home. I go to class cuz i like people watching. Even though i don't participate as much as i should.Most of the time i feel the class out and the instructor.

I tend to know concepts before i know the words to explain them. Its weird. Its like iv thought about that since i was 10 but didn't know it was called this. I usually learn definitions in school but i already know how it works

Joe Dirt wrote:I tend to know concepts before i know the words to explain them. Its weird. Its like iv thought about that since i was 10 but didn't know it was called this. I usually learn definitions in school but i already know how it works

Me too. As a result, nothing surprises me too much. I guess it would take something completely out of the range of my comprehension to do that. It seems as though everything I learn, even the most surprising things, are eventually followed by the thought "I suppose I've always known or conceived of such a possibility".

It seems as though everything I learn, even the most surprising things, are eventually followed by the thought "I suppose I've always known or conceived of such a possibility".

Dont understand how one can learn something then be surprised by it.

i quite like lectures. i like just sitting back and letting the information wash over me and i absorb some.

i don't mind seminars either - college is kind of the one place i don't mind interacting: because it's formalised i don't really think about it - as long as i stick to the topic i can get involved in discussion.

but none of the other students get to talk to me about personal stuff

lectures are to seminars

what books are to magazines or periodicals

Depends on the lecturer really.
I've had many who didn't teach me squat (learned most of the stuff at home) and others who've been brilliant. Most of them are okay though, some are great.

[/quote]Depends on the lecturer really.
I've had many who didn't teach me squat (learned most of the stuff at home) and others who've been brilliant. Most of them are okay though, some are great.

Why is it that some teach and some are not? I think you learn when the information in front of you is cross referenced with another piece of information. thats what good teachers and students can provide.

most people think that information or learning is absolute. Its all over the place. I think mags and periodicals are advantageous in a way. A article then a ad but a ad corresponding to the subject matter of the mag. They stay up to date. i don't read them since i use the internet to keep read. but it gives you 80/20 much more efficiently that a book can.

I love lectures. Courses where the teacher would just drone on and on and we would take notes were my favourite. This is probably why I did so much better in university than in high school