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by anon73044 2376 days ago
>It can also take significantly less time. I'm not sure the traditional lecture in front of a blackboard approach is relevant nowadays

It's actually one of the worst ways of learning.

It may be anecdotal, but I've found that I learn faster and retain more while actively working on something new that compares to a lecture.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/study-shows-t...

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I'm the same way and have always been. The only time I got anything from lectures in college was when I had an extraordinarily gifted professor (inventor of the EMP bomb) teach electromagnetic field theory. Awesome lecture, beautiful math, too bad I used approximately zero of it later on. But at least I enjoyed it.