Lecture Demonstrations

Michael Faraday, one of the greatest of lecture demonstrators.
Oil painting by T. Phillips, 1842, in the National Portrait Gallery, London.*

"Talking of education 'People have now-a-days (said he) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can best be taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn.'"
Samuel Johnson as quoted in James Boswell 'The Life of Dr Johnson" (quote from 1766)

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Demonstration Staff:

Jeff Rudd

Laura Schmidt

Last updated April 28, 1999

Jeff Rudd, rudd@sfu.ca

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*The portrait of Michael Faraday is taken from a postcard sent to me by Jim Brown, University of Kent, Canterbury. Scanned by Neil Alberding. Used without permission. I believe the portrait is in the public domain but I will remove it if it is not.