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Originally Posted by tirsales
I apologize if my statement was sounding, as if "bigger classes" would mean an automatic failure - this was never my intention.
A smaller class makes it easier for teachers to adopt to pupils (thus providing more help for weak pupils) - you can learn (quite literally) the same stuff in a large class then in a small one.
I will not respond to the rest of your post - not out of disregard, but simply out of lack of time. Just wanted to clarify the above part.
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No apology necessary. I didn't take it that way. Many people have said that smaller class size is better for learning, but I've never seen it that way.
When I was in school (long, long ago and far, far away), like I said, we had large classes. The teacher always made time to work one on one with weaker pupils, during class, and not to the detriment of the rest of the class either. Other students would also help the weaker ones without being condescending toward them. It just worked.