> But then I remembered what I was like as a teenager headed off to college, so ignorant of what college was and what it could be, and so reliant on the college itself to provide what I’d need in order to get a good education.
One point not much addressed is that, while this style of education sounds great for the top five or ten percent of students, that leaves a large number that I (and I have experience with them) wonder about. There is some bias in people who went to top schools, and succeeded there, thinking about the way they would have liked to have been taught.
If a student has not done the reading, or not done the homework, or does not participate in class, do they get an F? Currently you work with people, trying to bring them along. Changing that would be a very sharp change in the current practice of education. (Or, will this education method lead to students doing the reading? That's a wonderful and tantalizing hope.)
That's by no means to put down the innovations, which are exciting. That's only to observe that often a person's thinking is influenced by who they are, and their experience.