Choosing the Reith lecturer every year is one of the privileges of the job. It is a rather wonderful piece of patronage (for me, at any rate) and poses numerous challenges. I look every year for ...

Back in the 1970s, a small number of anti-authoritarian educators decided that the lecture was an archaic medieval relic that had no place in a modern enlightened university. It was denounced for ...

A few weeks ago, I had an odd pedagogical moment. I was at a media event for Hasbro, where they were rolling out their upcoming Star Wars, Marvel, Transformers, and GI Joe toys collectibles. The event ...

Most people dread attending their lectures because they find them painfully boring, long or stressful. That’s not my experience, though. I think attending lectures is fun because I become my most ...