I think it was because it was a unique moment in American higher education.

我觉得这是因为那时是,美国高等教育的特殊时期。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If you go back to the colonial times, education would be conducted in an unheated room by someone who basically hates children and would come into the room and look at someone, and glower and yell, "Sadoway! Stand and recite!"

如果你们回到殖民时期，教育就是在一间氤氲的房间里进行的,由一些基本上是讨厌孩子的人来教授,他们会来到房间，然后看着某个学生，怒视并大叫，萨杜威，站起来，背诵“

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That was education in the old days.

这即是旧时期的教育。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选