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"The point of an education is to become intimately familiar with the subject, not with the teacher," Lewis says.
"I had a small, intimate seminar with a senior faculty member that was so boring and incomprehensible that I wish it had been bigger so I and my ignorance would not have been noticed so much," Lewis says. " I don't believe that class size makes as much difference to...
Knowles says he agrees that very large classes in no way hinder students' ability to benefit from a productive learning environment. He says that instead of isolation, a large class can provide a great way for students to have a common learning experience.
The one danger, Knowles says, is the possibility that certain groups of students may end up with a college career composed entirely of anonymous lecture courses.
Because of a phenomenon that Knowles terms 'verticality,' science concentrators must take many more prerequisites before they can advance to smaller classes. Conversely, English and history classes are more likely to be based on a topic for which a student is not required to have any prior knowledge.