"I lectured a room full of prosecutors on the mainland, and they were all cheering democracy in Hong Kong," he said.
There's Dave Grossman, a leading consultant to police and the F.B.I., lecturing a room full of officers on the pleasures of using violence on the job.
In a charming, only somewhat condescending scene in "Quartet," Reginald Paget Tom Courtenayy), a retired opera singer, lectures a room full of hip-hop-loving teenagers about the similarities and differences between his favorite music and theirs.
Then Mr. McCall and Ms. Ferraro applauding Mr. Ferrer, who is shown last, talking with children, lecturing a room full of people and hugging a child with Puerto Rican flags in the background.
Participants buy a twenty-five-dollar ticket at the museum's gift shop, attend a half-hour talk in a lecture room upstairs, get a clipboard, a questionnaire, a stubby pencil, and a badge sticker, and walk next door, to 97 Orchard Street, a five-story tenement building, where they knock on the door and demand answers from costumed historic reënactors with strong Yiddish accents.
By contrast, our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
In Lucy, Professor Samuel Norman, played by Morgan Freeman, is lecturing to a room of academics that we, humans, only use 10% of our brain's capacity, whereas dolphins use 20% of their brain's capacity.
The multi-use space the group's first location available to the general public will ultimately include the temple's offices, an art gallery, a lecture room, and a gift shop.
Once the lecturers agreed, the researcher went to the corresponding lecturers' lecture room during the lecture break.
And attempts to juice up miscellaneous audios with music yields weird effects, as of a lecture delivered in a room next door to a piano bar.
