Learning on your own is certainly core to college - but lectures that just where the TA just takes an outline from the book and regurgitates it are a waste of time. I certainly never attended those classes. I imagine they are useful for auditory learners but I’m not one of those.
Even at the college level there are plenty of class formats where either teaching was done, or at the very least was done via discussion.
The "here’s are the course materials read to you by a very bored smart person who has better things to do", isn’t a class format - it’s a series of exams.
Even at the college level there are plenty of class formats where either teaching was done, or at the very least was done via discussion.
The "here’s are the course materials read to you by a very bored smart person who has better things to do", isn’t a class format - it’s a series of exams.