“When I taught an honors class in introductory economics at Cornell — a seminar with 15 students, compared to a couple of hundred students in the regular class — my department chairman urged me to expand the honors class to 30 students, “so that more students can get the advantage of the small class.”
It never seemed to occur to him that expanding the class would destroy the advantages of the small seminar. “
Too good!
Excellent choice of words, SJB. He comes up with those in most every one of his columns.