I only had 2 years of very large lectures freshman and sophomore years of college. My k12 and the rest of college consisted mostly of your (2), varying degrees of personal relationships with teachers.
My (3) was limited because I'm a kook and don't play well with others. But the few peers I did interact with became lifelong teachers to me. I'm still friends with most of them. Frankly, I get very little out of lectures. If it's not interactive and exploratory, it's largely wasted on me. The only reason I survived my 1st two college years was because my high school classes covered much of that material and I was too chicken to try to test out of those classes. There was a horrifying bridge period the second half of my second year in college and much of my third year that tested my resolve. I did very poorly. Then it picked up quite a bit when I started taking classes where thought was valued over testing skills. Nicholas Thompson wrote at 03/07/2013 04:03 PM: > I am curious to know what the folks on this list think an education > consists in. For me, it consisted in > > (1) Many large lectures of which most were stultifying beyond > belief, but of which a few were inspiring. > > (2) A few settings where I made direct contact with professors (or > good TA;s) and was taught how to do stuff and my work was critiqued in > meaningful ways. > > (3) Many, many interactions with very smart peers in which they > taught me and I got to try my ideas out on them. > > > > Was your experience different from that? -- =><= glen e. p. ropella I came up from the ground, i came down from the sky, ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
