(Steven Hayward) Periodic surveys of higher education around the world usually find American universities dominating the top of the lists. But I wonder whether they deserve this high esteem—especially after the last two weeks. European and Chinese universities tend to feature more large, rote-learning lecture classes, sometime with as many as 800 students in the lecture hall. That's not teaching; that's just a large TED talk. Seminars and interactive discussion are much
Source: Power Line