We need a revolution in university teaching – and online-only lectures could start it | Simon Jenkins

The idea has met with uproar from Manchester students, but if it results in more teaching hours, all the better

Lectures are rubbish education. They should have gone out when printing was invented and students learned to read. The vanity of monks and preachers kept them going and set them up for university education ever since. Lectures have nothing to do with teaching, which is an interactive process. They are academic showbusiness.

Yet 3,000 Manchester University students have signed a petition ...