Mortimer J. AdlerA 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.
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A lecture is a type of teaching that is done by a trained person, usually a teacher. The main goal of the teacher is to teach memorization, but students often find that they have learned little from a lecture. Instead, lecturers tend to focus on memorizing terms and formulas, and not on how these work in relation to each other.
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