Sitting at lectures should be
optional
Why
people always said the high school should be the main priority? Because Some
people pay attention at learning, they think that learning is the foundation to
improve knowledge. So that’s why people do study everytime. For example when
person was graduated in junior high school, he or she will continue to be
senior high school, and then when he or she was graduated at senior high
school, he or she will continue at university. In university people will face
with lectures. Sometimes lectures should be important to us. There are the
reasons why we need lectures and why sometime we do not need lectures.
Different people catch on to
different ideas at different rates. In a lecture, if you stop and think about
an idea, you will miss the next one. It means we are sharing idea to other. My
own experience of going to lectures is this. Taking notes means writing down
one thing and listening to another at the same time, if I do not do that, I
will lost fokus and pay attention.
Lectures is a practical
compromise, which is always bound to be a bad thing. But given that practical
compromise is necessary, how can we improve the situation as much as possible?
Sitting at lectures probably true for most people in most disciplines as well.
Apart from for a few lucky geniuses, fluency in a new idea is unlikely to be
immediate. It takes practice, and where ideas are concerned this means hard
thought.
In contrast sometime people
thing lectures are at the wrong time. By this I do not
mean that they are too early in the morning, although this usually does happen
to be the case, unless they are too soon after lunch or too late in the day, the
role of a lecture is to teach new material. But we would probably benefit more
from the input of the lecturer if the material were not completely new to us, but rather, slightly familiar and
requiring further elucidation.
Nobody should be expected to
understand things in lectures. The hope is that we go away from the lecture
sufficiently equipped to be
able to do that practice, and sufficiently motivated actually to go and do it. We are must not always
attend in lectures and pay attention to lecture, sometime we can study alone at
home or look for a knowledge from anywhere.
As we know lectures is just
a medium to get knowladge with any facilities. Sometime what we get from lectures are not too
important, for example the contrast opinion from lecturer, even less if
lecturer is talking too long about his or her history which is not relation
with our lectures. It something like that happened maybe will make us waste the
time in sitting at lectures, because knowledge not only we get in the lectures
but we can get knowledge everywhere.
In conclusion, we should ask
ourselves whether or not the person at the front of the lecture is adding
anything of value to the raw information being presented. If not, we should
wake up, getting theory or otherwise, and spend our time teaching and learning
properly.
Source : Cheng, Eugenia. 2001. Why lectures are a waste of time. University of Cambridge
