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Originally Posted by andrew112  Watching online lectures in an intellectual discipline can also be good for the brain, but studying on one's own out of a real (physical) textbook is probably even better for the brain; or even going to a real lecture instead of watching one online. |
Any teacher will tell you that watching an hour documentary on PBS is much better than an hour lecture. That would not apply to math. Showing numbers in a screen or on a blackboard are no different.
First the hour documentary costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to make. Teachers do not get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour. If it is on archeology, they can show you lots of videos of the actual digs and artifacts that they found there in many places all over the world.
In one documentary they showed the cliff in Europe where they found all these fossils and they shipped tons (literally) of these fossils to a woman in America. She then spent 5 years going over these fossils and learned that whales were originally wolf-like animals that hunted on the beach.
Gandhi is a move not a documentary but it cost millions of dollars to make and thousands of hours of work. Also millions of people who read the bible went to see Mel Gibson's movie, The
Passion of the Christ and many of them cried.
The reason that Mel Gibson was so upset and said bad things about Jews when arrested (note- I am Jewish) was because Jews originally owned all the movie production companies and still have most of the control of them. The reason that Jews got into that business was because there was no competition from Christians. At that time Jews had trouble competing with Christians.
Some swimming pools would have signs saying "
No Jews, blacks or dogs allowed. Now the Jewish comedians made a big deal about how the Jews were mentioned first like they are worse than blacks and dogs. There is a movie that shows this but I forget which one.