my opinion on teacher-based traditional lectures

Traditional lectures are what people expect from education. Typically, it involves a group of student listening to a single lecturer.

what I feel about traditional methods are;

• its not entirely bad
• mostly boring but this can be remedied fairly easily with effort
• should still be practiced to an extent, even in the most futuristic schools. 

what I think should be introduced while conducting traditional methods to maximize effect -

• the concept of Marketing - we need to sell the fascination and passion to the students. 

the very basic of marketing is the AIDA concept - that people go through the stages of Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action in order to buy goods. 

I feel the process is similar when it comes to learning. I'm not talking about the exam-oriented learning which comes from the study-or-die mentality, but the more authentic kind which is significantly less painful and leads to lifelong learning. 

Learning must come from within, but the difficult part - i guess, is to light that starting fire within. Lecturers can help with that because they are supposed to be an exploding ball of passion flame. 

I think most lecturers start with the notion that students are already interested in the subject. Or, they think "only the worthy should remain (stay awake)" - or that the subject is too narrow and only themselves might even consider to be interesting ... which is all not the best way to approach the didactic method - in my opinion, lecturers' most important aim in lecturing is to light that fire, through gaining attention, sparking interest, giving students desire to learn, and providing material for students to act upon. 

this idea sparked in me when I was reading a Quora article about marketing techniques about making catch copies that sell. The world of education has a lot to learn from the world of marketing, due to the fact that marketing is directly associated with profit, and therefore more robustly thought about, using more money and resource. A smart thing to do, is to borrow those concepts and apply them to education.