“The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either.”

“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”

“There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.”

“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

“People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!”