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If your average college lecture was an interactive experience, sure, smaller sizes are better. I don't know about you, but that's decidedly not how my college l

If your average college lecture was an interactive experience, sure, smaller sizes are better. I don't know about you, but that's decidedly not how my college lectures were - it's the prof talking down to a room full of people madly scribbling. So in that context, since the experience is entirely one-sided, why not scale it up?

eli_gottlieb 15y ago
If your average college lecture was an interactive experience, sure, smaller sizes are better. I don't know about you, but that's decidedly not how my college lectures were - it's the prof talking down to a room full of people madly scribbling. Which means you had an inferior college experience. For us, lectures consisted of about 25-50 people after the introductory courses. Even the non-intro weed-out courses had small sections. Larger sections were used to have a better, more specialized professor teach more people due to lack of another equally-qualified professor, as necessary. Small sections allow for more discussions, more curricula shifts to cover additional subjects, more honors colloquia for dedicated students, etc.