LECTURES NOT THE BEST METHOD OF LEARNING

 

LECTURES NOT THE BEST METHOD OF LEARNING

ADAM GRANT
THINK AGAIN

Lectures are not always the best method of learning. They are not enough to develop students into lifelong learners. 

If you spend all of your school years being fed information and are never given the opportunity to question it you won't develop the tools for rethinking that you need in life.

While a boring lecture would fail, even captivating lectures can fall short for a less obvious, more valid reason.

Lectures aren't designed to accommodate dialogue or disagreement. They turn students into passive receivers of information rather than making them active thinkers. 

Lecturing becomes ineffective when it doesnot propel students to think.

True, lectures preach new thoughts. But they rarely aid the students in developing their thinking process..

Charismatic speakers can put us under a spell. But we should be persuaded by the substance of an argument and not by its shiny packaging. 

Experiments have shown that when a speaker delivers an inspiring message, the audience scrutinizes the material less carefully and forgets the content, even  as  they claim they remember most of it.