{"id":14579,"date":"2015-11-04T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=14579"},"modified":"2015-11-04T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:03:23","slug":"in-defense-of-the-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/in-defense-of-the-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of the lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/18\/opinion\/sunday\/lecture-me-really.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> today, a defense of the value to the humanities of the classic hour-long lecture \/ following discussion format, augmented by concise hand-written note-taking by students.  Of course a lot will depend on one&#8217;s ability to deliver the lecture without reading verbatim or killing it with Powerpoint, plus the level of one&#8217;s physical dynamism, clarity of diction and strength of voice.  And one needs students who know how to take good selective paper notes and sketch mini-diagrams, and who are not either hungover\/shivering in the morning or exhausted at the end of the day. So it&#8217;s not an option for everyone, nor at all times of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times today, a defense of the value to the humanities of the classic hour-long lecture \/ &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/in-defense-of-the-lecture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}