That's a facile response. I can't say that there was a hell of a lot of difference in pedagogical methods between public school and university, apart from the difficulty of the material, and certain assumptions about the maturity of the students. Both still have a person standing in front of a room full of seated students, with some sort of visual medium, as Java described in the post to which I was responding.
Are you suggesting that there is one universal model that all private schools follow? I knew lots of people in Catholic schools, and their experience was no different from mine apart from the absence of opposite sex classmates and the presence of nuns and priests. Or do parochial schools not count for your private school model?
And you've experienced both public and private? I'll admit that my experience with public school ended in 1974.
No. If they don't change soon, it's our fault not theirs. And Bill Bennett's...