Post by medved on Nov 9, 2004 19:11:42 GMT -5
One of the three schools which traditionally trained cavalry officers, Norwich also used to run the nation's most serious intensive Russian language program which has since been merged with that of Middlebury College, also in Vt. Vt. colleges share in the sense that students at one have little difficulty taking a particular class at another.
Teaching at Norwich is conducted according to what I'd view as the good model. Classrooms are discussion groups, materials are provided aforehand and meant to be absorbed on the student's own to the greatest extent possible.
The opposite model of teaching is the sort of thing I've observed at Chapel Hill and a couple of other places in which the hour between bells is mainly absorbed in transcribing materials from the chalkboard. My own view of that sort of thing at this point is that a school which practices it is basically a secretarial school. With my present attitudes I'd walk out of any school like that after the first day.
Teaching at Norwich is conducted according to what I'd view as the good model. Classrooms are discussion groups, materials are provided aforehand and meant to be absorbed on the student's own to the greatest extent possible.
The opposite model of teaching is the sort of thing I've observed at Chapel Hill and a couple of other places in which the hour between bells is mainly absorbed in transcribing materials from the chalkboard. My own view of that sort of thing at this point is that a school which practices it is basically a secretarial school. With my present attitudes I'd walk out of any school like that after the first day.
