Timeline for What is the point of a lecture when you have a textbook?
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| Sep 8, 2015 at 5:07 | comment | added | Joel | @JoshuaBenabou And someone intending to do research isn't going to learn that from a book. If you want to do research - the best thing to do would be to get to the prof's office and talk about what you're doing in the class and how/if that relates to the prof's research. Remember if you're going to do a PhD one day, you'll want a letter of recommendation. A letter of recommendation looks much better if it shows signs that the prof knows who you are. | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 4:50 | comment | added | Joel | @JoshuaBenabou You know, I've had some incredibly talented students in my classes. Some of them I managed to get to come to my office hours. They learned by far much more than they would have from just reading a book. So sure, if it's a huge class and it's targetting students below you, I get that. But if it's a small class where you can engage the instructor, or even better you talk to the instructor 1 on 1, you'll learn dramatically more. | |
| Sep 7, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | math_lover | This whole discussion is about STEM. I had in mind specifically science/math for people intending to do research. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 6:43 | comment | added | Jessica B | Depends on what you mean by fail. Plenty of people benefit from a degree that they were not very motivated to study for. | |
| Sep 4, 2015 at 0:25 | comment | added | DylanB | @JoshuaBenabou I wish I could upvote that comment more. If somebody just goes to school/university because they're made to, then it's rare they would do anything worthy of note. Chimpanzees would be as easy to train, probably cheaper too. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 11:46 | comment | added | math_lover | A small proprotion, but most likely if one is not very motivated one will fail in the long run anyway. | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 7:03 | comment | added | Jessica B | @JoshuaBenabou What proportion of students do you think are 'very motivated'? | |
| Sep 3, 2015 at 2:04 | comment | added | math_lover | It seems to me that anyone with above average intelligence who is very motivated to study the subject in question can absorb the information in a book in the same way they can listen to the information in their ears. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 23:00 | history | answered | Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |