Mattson takes a long time to get to the point and along the way makes unfair potshots at active learning. There is a reason why small liberal arts school graduates run the world, you know. (Can I get a witness DC?). There is no substitute for small classes. Honestly, you can't learn history without actually doing history.
Yes, but before he gets there he spends a long time making his readers feel anxious about active learning. In other words, it'd be nice if his point was clearer and more up-front, especially since his title, which prompts people to be biased against active learning from the start, is misleading. As he himself acknowledges, the precepts of active learning in themselves are not bad; it's the improper application of a good idea that's the problem.
His isn't a bad argument, but it is a badly-constructed article that won't really get his argument for smaller classes anywhere. It will, however, erroneously confirm the suspicions of those who already have decided they aren't interested in adopting the good aspects of active learning.
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Mattson takes a long time to get to the point and along the way makes unfair potshots at active learning. There is a reason why small liberal arts school graduates run the world, you know. (Can I get a witness DC?). There is no substitute for small classes. Honestly, you can't learn history without actually doing history.
That was Mattson's point.
Yes, but before he gets there he spends a long time making his readers feel anxious about active learning. In other words, it'd be nice if his point was clearer and more up-front, especially since his title, which prompts people to be biased against active learning from the start, is misleading. As he himself acknowledges, the precepts of active learning in themselves are not bad; it's the improper application of a good idea that's the problem.
His isn't a bad argument, but it is a badly-constructed article that won't really get his argument for smaller classes anywhere. It will, however, erroneously confirm the suspicions of those who already have decided they aren't interested in adopting the good aspects of active learning.
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