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• A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Truth, Textbooks, May

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• I do sometimes lecture people about what they’re eating, but that’s only if they ask me.

  Woody Harrelson

  People, Sometimes, Eating

  "Woody Harrelson, ‘Hunger Games’ Star, On Not Giving Advice To Jennifer Lawrence And Josh Hutcherson". Interview with Sharon Knolle, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

  Gail Collins

  Memories, College, Feelings

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.

  Paul Laffoley

  College, Islands, Yankees

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Powerful, Book, Religion

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.105, Penguin

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• Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.

  Seamus Heaney

  Fall, Teaching, Towers

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

  Nat Hentoff

  Arthur, Mets

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Humility, Lessons

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.82, Xist Publishing

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• I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

  Drew Carey

  Running, Doctors, Race

  "Drew Carey: 'I feel like I'm aging in reverse". Interview with Mary Brophy Marcus, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 8, 2011.

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• I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

  Bill Ayers

  Writing, Silent, Teach

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• Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Science

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• It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

  Martha Plimpton

  Care, Morality, Easier

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• I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

  Robert Hass

  Giving, Want, Students

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• I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Teaching, College, Would Be

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• The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

  Hermann Bondi

  Book, Opportunity, Giving

  "Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory". Book by Hermann Bondi (p. v), 1967.

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• I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Autobiography, Materials

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Balls, Given

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• Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Two, Special

  "Q&A: Bill Gates: Lessons Learned". Interview with Ina Fried, www.cbsnews.com. January 25, 2010.

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• I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Ministry, Berlin, Philosopher

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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• We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you see something or someone beautiful, the next time you hear it, it sounds different. So you can't cling to beauty; beauty passes and when that passes, you realize you pass too, and you will die. And that's why people cry at a beautiful view, a beautiful lecture, a beautiful painting, a new baby.

  Pat Steir

  Beautiful, Baby, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Teacher, Mean, Doe

  "The Point of View of My Work as an Author". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1848.

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• I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

  Martin Rees

  Thinking, Mind, Orbit

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• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Children, Home

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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