My experience at a university comparable to Stanford and Berkeley is that lectures perfectly conform to what I said: good ones are the exception rather than the

My experience at a university comparable to Stanford and Berkeley is that lectures perfectly conform to what I said: good ones are the exception rather than the norm. Most lectures are mostly useless as a form of teaching material outside of offering you the ability to ask the question you have to a specialist and the syllabus hopefully pointing you towards good books while telling you which chapters you can skip if you just want a sound but basic overview of a subject. I would much rather read than listen or watch something. I think the problem remains the same nowadays that it was before when people in large cities had access to good learning material through their public libraries: knowing which are the good resources amongst all that is available.