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- From: disraeli@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jamie Lara Bronstein)
- Subject: Re: Large lecture sections
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:23:24 GMT
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- This seems to be a pretty good system, and I certainly can't complain --
- the graduate students get a fair amount of autonomy, and the students
- in sections benefit from their individual areas of expertise AND from their
- enthusiasm as new teachers -- plus the opportunity to really discuss the
- course material rather than being spoon-fed.
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- I can attest, from my undergraduate experience at a small liberal arts
- school (Tufts) to the fact that being taught by an enthusiastic grad
- student is not generally as preferable as being taught by an enthusiastic
- professor, but there are plenty of unenthusiastic professors!
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- Jamie Bronstein
- History Department
- Stanford University
- disraeli@leland.stanford.edu
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