Way past due (Score 1)

This is way past due. When I was a freshman at Ga Tech in 1971, my first calculus class had thirty or so students and was taught by the dean of the math department. This is what an undergraduate education is supposed to be like. A class of hundreds taught in a massive lecture hall is essentially self-taught. It lacks two essential components - an opportunity for individual students to interact with the professor during class, and the interaction between students from which so much real education derives. I recently took my son to Tech (he was accepted but decided to go elsewhere). The first two years of calculus are now taught in massive lecture halls. These are make or break classes for so many students who might do fine if any actual *teaching* was going on there. As far as I'm concerned, putting undergraduates in lecture halls with hundreds of other students is a theft of their tuition - and a waste of their time. Let the *graduate* students teach themselves. By the time they get to that point they should be able to anyway.