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Confident theoreticians claim that the best way to learn is in the company of others.
Sitting alone under a tree with a book is pedagogically unsound. Paying close attention for an hour to a professor informed about a subject is also a dead end. This message is proclaimed by entire conferences, ubiquitous workshops, and circuit-riding consultants. Learning at its best, they tell us, is an interactive group phenomenon. An immediate casualty of interactive-learning theory is the student who prefers solitary study and inquiry.