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[quote=Anonymous]I'm interested in your perspective as a faculty member at a large university.  Like you, I went to a small liberal arts college and got a great education,  In 4 years I took only 3 large lecture courses (intro courses in art history, music history and geology), as a freshman I had two seminars, and, all in all, I had an extraordinary opportunity to get one-on-one attention from my very generous professors.  I distinctly remember a renowned economist reviewing sentence-by-sentence a draft of a paper dense with statistics to help me understand how to present that data in a clear and effective way.  Similarly, an English prof, a poet who went on to win a major prize, took the time to review a paper in great detail -- even discussing the choice of a single word I had used to describe Wordsworth's imagery -- what were the implications of that choice and how might a reader respond to it.  I went on to law school where I found that the writing skills I had developed under the guidance of these patient and generous profs were a great asset.  In fact, a law school prof once commented that she could easily guess which of her students had attended a small l/a college and which a large university based on their writing.

Now, my son, a 10th-grader, is intent on going to a large university.  He argues that the grad students at a prestigious research univ. are themselves such strong students that they would make excellent instructors.  Based on your experience supervising such grad students, how would you respond to his argument?    [/quote]

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