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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lecture is still important. You don’t want to be in a seminar class filled with kids who know nothing.[/quote]

LACs have lectures too. They just have 50 students in them, rather than 500.

But they also have many, discussion-based seminars where students are forced to engage actively in the learning after the professors introduce concepts or an idea. Many small, private high schools also have this system with great effect and impact.[/quote] 
It’s sad that some adults never grow up. If college is like high school, something is wrong.

[b]To op, the best scholars are at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT and occasionally Berkeley[/b][/quote]

But if you are a tech or STEM major you will never actually be taught by them because their job is to run a lab and generate benefits for the school. Teaching (outside of the grad students working in their lab) is not part of their job and actually a waste of their time. And top producers will not hesitate to tell you that. [/quote]

The most famous/prominent scholars may also be jerks.

I was a female economics major.  A government entry-level economist and an MBA.  I had heard of Larry Summers of Harvard because of his running his mouth off about women nearly 20 years ago.

Today, because of Larry Summers being in the news for being an Epstein-associated sleazebag, I linked for the first time to a 4 year old blog post by a female economist that is devastating re: the abuse of power and elitism in the academic-centered economics profession. It's shocking.

https://macromomblog.com/2020/07/29/economics-is-a-disgrace/

The best teachers are the ones who enjoy teaching and are skilled at lecturing/communicating love of subject/managing meaningful discussion.  They really do not need to be prominent.  That is just added cool factor.[/quote]

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