[sam_paine]

OK -- you have a prof that knows a subject inside out and gives a lecture. Why not have 300 people listen to that lecture.

Perhaps I misunderstand you. Are you saying college -is not- about classes of 200-300 or more?

IT MOST CERTAINLY IS!

At least in the public university I attended. Not only that, but there were weed out classes where they intentionally tried to get rid of half the class before major sequence.

[wintertime]

At least in the public university I attended. Not only that, but there were weed out classes where they intentionally tried to get rid of half the class before major sequence.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Absolutely! Nearly half of my class dropped out after Calculus I and General Chemistry. Another fourth switched to other majors after the first course of Organic Chemistry and Physics for physics majors.

I suggest that all government teachers be required to take and pass Calculus I. Most certainly don't need calculus, but it would assure that they were minimally intelligent enough to be teaching.