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Woolf believed that printing the contents of a lecture was superior to speaking it:
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why continue an obsolete custom which not merely wastes time and temper, but incites the most debased of human passions
vanity, ostentation, self-assertion, and the desire to convert? Why encourage your elders to turn themselves into prigs and prophets . . .
In 2005 author and former professor Annis Pratt published “How I Taught Values” in the journal “Feminist Teacher”, and she referenced the words of Virginia Woolf:
Chief among the professorial behaviors she deplores is lecturing, which she finds analogous to the dominating psychology of fascist dictators rising in Europe of the thirties: “If we are asked to lecture,” Woolf suggests,