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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Worth including "the ideal": "a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher—a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things."
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Will we always have so many more students than good teachers? Do you believe there are an equal # of good teachers as there are good students?
In this ideal the person probably needs to be a SME, to discuss and help think/talk about things, does that make them a teacher?
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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.