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There are many, many studies out there and most deal with the educational system that demonstrates bias due to the conditioning and education of those teachers and educators. In many, it could be stated that the optimal teacher to student ratio would be 1 teacher for every 4 students. It’s almost as if prior experiences along with class sizes and the types of reductions tested to reduce sizes to manageable levels dominates so that when a class is taken from forty students down to twenty, the relief and perception is predetermined through influence principles and compliance processes to that the teachers in the studies would ‘think’ those new smaller classes were better or optimal without even considering the 1-to-4 ration I suggest overall.
Notice also I said, ‘manageable,’ where that is managing bodies while my focus is the best ratio I think, feel and theorize would best assist in student learning, retention and understanding. Then there are other factors not mentioned as to the abilities, motivations and diligence, etc., of students as related to the subject matter.
In my analysis, not a scientific one, and findings I think when all parties are motivated to learn, motivated to the discipline/subject and seemingly of similar intelligence that a one-to-four ration of teacher and student to be optimal. As the ration skews to one-to-eight or one-to-twelve, and so on, the success and viability of that teaching diminishes accordingly assuming all things being equal.
Now, that ration can be extended, i.e., when you reach a certain level of education and understanding, etc., then you can split up the four to lead, with your guidance, four or five for each of the four bringing the dojo session up to twenty total. You, the teacher, the four leaders and the sixteen followers under their guidance and the control of the one teacher. Honestly, I would not allow my dojo attendance to exceed this and only if the four core students could teach properly, adequately and efficiently so no one is left behind or suffers from missing important component of the martial disciplines.
Even all the studies as affected by criteria even those of cost benefit and funding the end result in almost every case is to say, “Then there’s a ratio of 1 to 4.”
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