THE UNIVERSITY LECTURE.
0-Lectures alone are never a satisfactory method of instruction; it is essential that they ,be supplemented by disdussion and the written 'work of the student. .. . Lectures without disr cUssion, and that at the highest attainable level, seem /to be merely barren. The chief way in which the student learns to think is by testing ms mind ‘against the teacher’s mind. He lias to learn to ask significant questions, to. explain to himself significant answers. Ho has to find the obvious made doubtful and the unbelievable proved to be. true. He has to be led jnt'o a mental jungle and driven, by confronting intellectual danger, to find his way to the light. That, 1 venture to insist, is work for the best minds, a university possesses; and to have it done' asTihferior work is ruinous to all that great lecturing can achieve.” — Professor H, J. Laski, in the “ Century'Magazine.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1929, Page 3
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151THE UNIVERSITY LECTURE. Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1929, Page 3
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