We know that teacher feedback is a big component in learning. So why wouldn’t learning be enhanced by lower teacher: student ratios? One answer might be that large classes are a disadvantage with advantages: that in coping with the difficulty of competing for teacher attention, kids learn something more important–namely self-reliance.

This might also explain why the highest achieving schools–those in places like இந்தியா tend to have much larger classes than in the United States.