I think I said that the most important thing that we have to do as faculty members is helping students learn how to learn—or, another way of saying it, preparing them for this idea of lifelong learning. Through a traditional lecture class, we teach them how to be stenographers, and to go memorize whatever it is that they have to memorize, and to regurgitate that on an exam. In the active, cooperative classroom, students actually have to learn how to learn, because they have to learn how to communicate their ideas to other individuals while they're in that teaming environment. I think that's what this is all about.

                                                       BACK