A New Way to Attain an Old Ideal

Abstract

Imagine the ideal university-level teaching circumstances: a small student-teacher ratio, say 8 to 1; a high degree of interaction, both student-teacher and student-student; frequent opportunities for students to write and critique each others’ writing; small groups making discoveries and solving problems together, without the intrusion or domination of the instructor. In short, the kind of collegiality around which higher education was originally designed to function.