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As an Oxford alumni, I would personally focus on this more: "But Oxford wasn’t like that. The teaching was personalised, flexible and interactive. That kind of
by WastingMyTime89 5y ago
As an Oxford alumni, I would personally focus on this more: "But Oxford wasn’t like that. The teaching was personalised, flexible and interactive. That kind of system keeps people like me in the room, fired up and engaged. Kids like me, who don’t flourish in school, can benefit from such attention, and focus, and belief. A good society would strive to give it to them."
Oxford provides an amazing environment if you genuinely want to learn and improve and the university actually seems to care about you succeeding. The time I spent there remain a decade later some of the most enjoyable in my life.
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- Cyril_HN 5y agoInterestingly, I wouldn't suggest that that has anything (or much) at all to do with "elite" universities. At St Andrews I didn't find that to be true. At a far less prestigious university, it was true. My cohort largely agrees with that assessment, too.
- dang 5y agoI've detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27342661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27342661, even though that deprives it of context, because it's better than the flamewar it got stuck in.
- jjgreen 5y agoAlumnus or alumna, surely :-)