Lectures are also better at “conveying information” than in-class activities designed to help students *learn* important concepts required to organize and use the information as an expert would. So the OP is correct, but in a way that is trivial and misleading.

Thus the caveat “in a learning environment.” Lectures are indeed a better way to “convey information in a learning environment” than having 100 people in a room reading the same text.

Conveying information in a learning environment ≠ Learning.

#ITeachPhysics and learning physics requires *doing* physics, not just watching someone else do it. In many situations, strategic mixing of in-class problem-solving, small-group discussion *and* short lectures > lectures.

This does come up in energy conversion, though. The US still uses British thermal units for heat/energy (1 BTU raises the temperature of water by 1 deg F), and measures it’s energy consumption in quads (1 quadrillion BTUs) instead of exajoules, like the rest of the world.

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She also describes how her Japanese-Canadian family faced severe government repression in Canada, during and after WWII, but refused to have their own voices silenced.

Very Canadian of you to anticipate the opportunity for an apology

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Anyway, I think it should be clear that my point was neither to question Pinker’s sincerity nor to dismiss the issues related to Carole Hooven’s case, but to gripe about journalists reducing stories about academic freedom to anecdotes from Harvard

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