COMMENT | Lecturing with positivity in mind

COMMENT | I am a retired professor from a local university. Like all professors, we are experts in obscure areas of scholarship, and in my case, it is the neurophysiology of learning.

We have come into the limelight lately with the focus on our lecturing methods. It is interesting to note that while lecturing means “to give a formal talk on a serious subject”, the Cambridge Dictionary also says it is “an angry or serious talk given to someone in order to criticise their behaviour”, the very antithesis of what I think a good lecturer should be.

Yet, apparently on social media, there are those who think that being angry, abusive and highly critical is the best way to teach and learn. They talk of...