Talk with individuals, not to groups
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Talk with individuals, not to groups by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
When you do get face to face time with students, don't teach a large group.
Everything you want to teach is already online.
And if it is not, then you are wasting your time saying it face-to-face instead of creating such online resource.
The only goal of meeting students is talking to them individually or in small groups to:
- understand what they feel
- transmit your passion for the subject
and letting them do the same amongst themselves.
If you talk to a large group, you will only reach / understand a very small percentage of the group, so your time is wasted.
It is better to deeply understand what 25% of the students feel and adapt the course material, than to talk to everyone at once, and have only 5% understand anything.
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