I'm a believer in individual learning styles, and hard as it is for me to understand personally, I do recognize that lots of people may learn best by lecture and drill. I certainly don't think bad of them for it. but many more people are not suited for this, and forcing them through the education system as it exists does them great harm, and I empathize strongly with them
Lecture and drill has been out of vogue for decades. The hot thing is active learning and high-impact practices. And frankly it has the opposite problem of dragging the class down to the slowest common denominator, wasting the opportunity to teach more to the high-achievers.
