And if the class is too small, among
the speakers, you don’t have enough
breadth of opinion perhaps to get
things really going. There is also
something hard to pin down about
energy level. A very small group
tends to lack the sort of energy that
comes from the friction between
people.
And a really, really small class?
Beware.
I had a class of nine students in
grade-twelve Academic French.
Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? It
was a nightmare! You can’t get any