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Individualized attention and small class sizes are important for socializing and educating children.

You can do both. Flipped classroom, where the students watch video lectures ahead of time on their own schedule, and the time in the classroom is for supplemental recitation sessions and/or getting practice with the material.

That is just bullshit buzzword. Overwhelming majority of classes involve both exercises and lecture like segments. They switch.

Plus, watching and reading stuff does not mean teacher can skip it. It still needs to be said again, either because many kids read only half of it or because they forgot it all due to not switching between active and passive learning by themselves.

I can't even get undergrads who are paying thousands a year to do the readings ahead of discussion sections.

Jeff Bezos can't get his employees to do the same, apparently. That's why meetings at Amazon start with a reading period, to ensure that everyone has read the memo that's on the agenda. The "flipped classroom" is an edfad than only works in advanced courses. Even worse: process-oriented guided inquiry with students who don't want to be there.

Even if the students won't do their homework, they're better off doing discussion and practice in the classroom than just lectures.

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