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[quote=Anonymous]I feel like people are ignoring the fact that past a certain point, it doesn't really matter how many kids are in a class.  Most of the large classes are fact-heavy and most of the hard work and gaining of understanding happens outside of the classroom.  The lecture is just an initial overview.  Like at a job where you have some up-front meetings but spend a lot of time working independently on your own tasks.

I understand that a lot of people like high-school-sized classes, and those are good for active discussion classes.  But I never minded moving to a bigger environment afterwards.  I can remember really enjoying a number of classes that were 50-100 students.  The large lecture classes I took were mainly 101s that I had to take for distribution requirements (Bio 101/102, Econ 101/102, Calculus).  The ones with problem sets had TA-led sections where you could go over all the homework, review the week's topics, etc.  It really worked fine.  To make an analogy to a local example...is the State of the Union address rendered boring because it's delivered in a large room?[/quote]

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