{"id":815,"date":"2009-08-02T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-08-02T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:37:27","slug":"lecture-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/lecture-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Timothy Burke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/2009\/07\/23\/red-herrings-overboard\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidance notes for academic lecturers<\/a>, I recalled Henry Adams writing in 1905 of his time as a student at the University of Berlin in 1858:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<em>. . . but in the Civil Law he found only the lecture-system in its deadliest form as it flourished in the thirteenth century. The Professor mumbled his comments; the students made, or seemed to make, notes; they could have learned from books or discussion in a day more than they could learn from him in a month, but they must pay his fees, follow his course, and be his scholars, if they wanted a Degree.\u00a0 To an American the result was worthless.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nHenry Adams [1905]: <em>The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>. (The Library of America, 1983, p. 789)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Timothy Burke&#8217;s guidance notes for academic lecturers, I recalled Henry Adams writing in 1905 of his time as a student at the University of Berlin in 1858: \u00a0. . . but in the Civil Law he found only the lecture-system in its deadliest form as it flourished in the thirteenth century. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-rhetoric","p1","y2009","m08","d02","h13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}