University study methods grant students freedom at the cost of personal connection to teachers

Evidence

(The Dalton system is simply an extension to the secondary schools of the methods of study which obtain in the Italian universities, methods which leave the student complete freedom in his studies: in certain faculties the students sit twenty examinations and their final degree in the fourth and last year, and the lecturer never so much as knows the student.) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1844

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Category: Factual Claims