Lecturer Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Jean Piaget

  Teacher, Mentor, Roles

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• I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

  Randy Pausch

  Beach, Children, Trying

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Father, Eccentric, Academic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is little disagreement on our planet that the lives of most human beings could be improved immensely. Words pour out of lecturers, articles pour out of magazines, and books pour out of authors, all seeking to help us understand how we can have more peace, security, health, opportunity, happiness, fulfillment, abundance, and love.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Book, Opportunity, And Love

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• 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.

  Frank Gehry

  Appreciation, Thinking, Friendly

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.

  Manisha Sinha

  Rights, Movement, Forget

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

  Mark Twain

  Giving, Furniture, Break

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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

  Eric Mazur

  Learning, Knowledge, Lectures

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

  James Meade

  College, Oxford, Economics

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Receiving, Pouring, Discouragement

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.34, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• 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.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wife, Long, Suffering

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• Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Thinking, Romance, Fine

  Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.44, The Floating Press

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• Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Reading, Yale, Rome

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• The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He has said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, "I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all to be kind to each other.

  Thomas Paine

  Art, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Paine (2012). “The Age of Reason”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

  Marisha Pessl

  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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

  Winifred Holtby

  Voice, Opinion

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Baby, Block, School

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• The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

  Peter Bayne

  Philosophical, Political, Finals

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• Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Community, Oratory

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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