Lecturer Quotes

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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.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

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."

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

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.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Is there cure of love? I Think not, but David you can tame it, I mean Yoga.Says Bhutta

They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.

First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta

If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.

I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century’s greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.