Discipline: education and teaching
One of the things which most educators agree upon is that the purpose of a lecture is more than to dictate information for students to memorize and recall. If this were not the case, lecturers could be replaced by review outlines and note pools. What is it besides dispensing nuggets of information that only a lecturer can provide? Some would say that the lecturer, by being entertaining, makes the lecture more fun or at least more palatable. For example, some lecturers will tell jokes to develop an entre nous rapport; they send the message that they know this is awful stuff but that they, and the class, are in it together and that they. the lecturers, are not bad guys. An alternative to this is to do some stunt which, it is hoped, will become associated with a particular point the lecturer is trying to make. Often the performer endears himself to his audience but the point of his stunt is lost. Other people seem to think that the job of the lecturer is to further eviscerate the most bare-boned outline to what is 'really important'. This is a sort of editorial function maximally to compress the lesson the student is to commit to memor?.
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