And of course, it’s worth mentioning how much more value a teacher can provide if they get to see their students more than once. When I taught at the University of Washington over a semester, it’s an entirely higher level of teaching and attention you can give when you actually get to observe your students over time. Something that’s impossible in a single day experience.

I agree as to why. What’s interesting is the research is pretty strong that despite people’s motivation for being willing to sit at a lecture all day, they’d learn more and get more value for their money if the day was comprised of exercises and activities, even if solo, rather than sitting and listening.

The problem is few know this, and some people are annoyed by having to participate in their own learning, since it’s different when compared to decades of sitting in lectures being called “learning” or “teaching”.

You have to find the balance (which is difficult) depending on the topic of the course and the background and the interest of the participants.

I’ll write up a separate post someday about Tufte in general. There’s a difference between being interesting and being applicable to the real world.

However, at the time I had used his books as reference material for a few years. Thus format was useful for me because I was able to dip into the stream when he brought up an idea or angle I hadn’t considered before. I imagine if the material were new to me, it would have been a long day.