At last....
When I went back to Uni, I had a vague fantasy about finding other students as passionate about reading, about books and about history as me. Tutorials were a great disappointment; a room filled to capacity with 20-25 people, and if I was lucky, 1 maybe 2 other people would say something. I found myself not answering a question posed, because I was
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I have to admit that when I was tutoring and lecturing it took an awful lot of work on my part to get the students to actually actively participate in the discussion and start thinking for themselves. Even when the tutorial consisted of formal role-playing (aka problem-based learning), which required the active participation of the students. [Victory! I was finally been paid to gamemaster!] And my stuff was easy, being application of technical stuff (with no critical analysis required).
But when they did relax enough to emerge from their shell and escape the role that had been drummed into them in high school ("you are here to learn from the teacher; you don't know enough yet to contribute to the discussion") they did blossom and started thinking for themselves.
I can almost guarantee that Emma is really really happy with you lot.
I was so happy when one of them tremulously put forward the suggestion that I was Evil (to the nodding consent of the rest of them) that I had to tell the Rubble. Of course the Rubble's comment was along the lines of "They're slow. The semester's half over and they've only just realised this."
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