What makes a good lecture and what makes a good textbook?

A good lecture inspires students and audience as a process of a Broadway show while a good textbook provides assistance for the teacher who prepares to give the lecture with tutor-assistance package.

To inspire the students, a teacher needs to explore into their deep soul and to feel what they really think and hence design the interactive activities in the classroom. The students’ feedback paves the way to their hearts and thoughts, and the only way of obtaining this feedback is based on the teacher’s design of the interaction and exchange between him and the students.

While one cannot deny the importance of this design in advance, no one may boldly assume that all the consequent feedback can be entirely pre-arranged or perfectly planned because even the smartest teachers cannot predict the outcome of their beloved students’ creative involvement in the classroom. It is this unpredictability that challenges the teacher and helps distinguish him from a textbook which is dead in nature. Even if textbooks are critically examined, which shows the strictness and the adherence to widely-accepted norm, they are still far from the flexibility that is highly required and demanded in the process of knowledge delivery. They lack the human nature to inspire the essence that can be utilized to facilitate the advancement of human wisdom and evolvement of human society.

To keep to the content of the textbook, even the best one, thus should not be the alternative of an excellent teacher——since there are no alternatives. Actually, such a teacher will listen to himself, to his heart and mind, and to his aspiration of becoming a master artist in a Broadway show, with his textbook put aside as only the auxiliary tools.