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Originally Posted by Trebla  With some kids, even the smart ones, self-learning is very time consuming and inefficient because more than likely they would have many unanswered questions. If they pose these questions to the school teacher, usually the reply would be "wait till we get up to that topic" otherwise the teacher would pay less attention to those who want to learn the current topic, whereas with a tutor they can be answered more or less straightaway as they learn ahead. |
I get this point. But self-learning is a big part that brings out the balance. If tutors always give the best solution, there will be no thinking. In the long term kids will be hesitant to think hard. But surely teachers do tend to run a one-way dialogue especially if you have a boring one. However I thought that teachers do organise groups of students to work and it's their job to do many activities at HS pretty much like primary school teachers do for little kids? Or at HS they just stop that group style and deliver boring instructions in a monotonous way?