Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 3. 1966.
Two pressures
Two pressures
Thus the contemporary fresher is under contradictory pressures one stressing the toughening of university courses, the other emphasising the importance of extra-curilcular activities.
It has been argued that the "disstance" between lecturer and student at the university acts against the interests of "education", in the widest sense in which that term is used. Large classes are often mentioned as "evidence" for such an assertion. There is probably much truth in such a view, but it should not be concluded that large classes inevitably mean "anonymity" for the student or that the student is seen as a statistic on a card, or a name on a class roll.