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They should be. They should teach how to think, how to approach new problems. But with 100-200 students/class, 4 hr/week marathon lectures they cannot be teache
by helwr 16y ago
They should be. They should teach how to think, how to approach new problems. But with 100-200 students/class, 4 hr/week marathon lectures they cannot be teachers, even if they want to, but only fast food chain operators.
I went to large schools, may be it's different in small "boutique" colleges, I don't know.
- tjr 16y agoI think it is different, or, at least, it can be. I went to a small college, with class sizes maxed out at 25 or 30, and frequently having less than that. My introductory linguistics class had six students, as I recall, and our "classroom" was usually sitting around a conference table discussing. One of the more popular classes (and thus regularly "packed" with 25 students) was a U.S. history class taught by a certain professor. He clearly had all of the material pre-planned in advance, but he was such a fascinating speaker to listen to that the material didn't come across as dry and bland. He was the sort of instructor that ought to make lecture recordings for students elsewhere to listen to.
- matwood 16y agoWow, I'm so happy I didn't go to a large school. I went to a smaller college (www.cofc.edu) and think I received a great education. In many of my majors classes there were maybe 20 people in them max. Every teacher knew me personally and had plenty of time for each student. Even the larger lecture hall type classes (for example science classes that every BS had to take) only had 60ish people in them IIRC.