Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@free_rider Not disagreeing, but just musing: class sizes of 15:1 can still produce quite exceptional results; roughly 1/8 of the population is K-12 age. So if we're willing to have ~1% of the population be teachers, we can get great S:T ratios. Doesn't seem *that* crazy." / Twitter

This is why exams won't ever go out of fashion in India with 25 Mn kids every year Blunt but the only tool we have in our arsenal Want to stop Ed craze? Have only one child We have a demographic curse not a dividend at this pace

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· Dec 21, 2021

Irony in Feynman's preface to the print copy of his Lectures: "It’s impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But…we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal."

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