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[QUOTE="mpresic3, post: 6080164, member: 641213"] There are many reasons to go to lectures. I expect almost all students with high IQ's and high intelligence, and high performers go to lectures. You may know which of your colleagues are struggling and which are doing well. If you go to lectures yourself, you can answer your own question. Feynman in his book, " Surely your joking " tells anecdotes where he is attending lectures. He also tells of his presentation with Albert Einstein in the audience. Apparently Albert Einstein went to lectures. Here are some reasons to attend lectures. 1. Suppose you have a physics textbook written by a top quality educator, e.g. Dr. Sasparilla. You learn everything from the textbook, and can solve all your problems just like Dr Sasparilla hopes you would as put forward in the preface of your book. Suppose further you are being taught in lecture by an equally good educator, Dr. Gingerale. Dr Gingerale decides he does not like Dr. Sasparilla's treatment of the harmonic oscillator and wants to introduce the class to his own treatment. If you did not go to lectures, you will miss out on Dr. Gingerale's treatment. When Dr. Gingerale gives a test, he may give a problem where his method has significant advantage over the treatment of Dr. Sasparilla. My freshman physics lectures provided methods that were significantly more advanced (in many ways) than the freshman physics textbooks. I learned this years later when revisiting my freshman physics notes. 2. I found that my lecturers were inspiring. I took assiduous notes, but I was always impressed by the tenor of the class, and his reverence for the subject as well as the presentation itself. Unless you are a consummate introvert, I do not think you would be able to maintain as much energy as equally talented students who can relate positively to the lecturer. 3. You may need a recommendation from the lecturer some day. Is Dr. Gingerale going to give a good recommendation to someone he doesn't know and someone who skipped many lectures, no matter how well that person did on tests. Dr. Gingerale might save his good recommendations for students whom he knows well, and also did well on tests. He or She might also be put off because the student chose to learn from Dr Sasparilla, (second hand) from his textbook, rather than attend his own lectures. Dr Gingerale might suggest the student get a recommendation from Dr Sasparilla. I could go on but I am positive the most talented students are using the lectures to the greatest advantage. [/QUOTE]
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