March 29, 2002

An 'Exciting' Education Through Tutorials

To the Editor:

Scott Smallwood's "Me and My Professor" (February 15) provides a glimpse at how exciting and stimulating college learning can be when it occurs in the ideal format of Oxbridge-style tutorials. Unfortunately, Smallwood focuses exclusively on Williams College. ... In the process, he gives a distorted perspective on the significance of the tutorial format at institutions of higher education in the United States, and he may discourage ... faculty members at other