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I don't teach, but I look at class as a combination of school, (as in an institute or university of higher education) and sports practice (as in a team sport).
Neither situation the individual has alot of say because the reason you go to class/practice is to objectivly improve and your own view of yourself is always gona be subjective.. so you go to someone skilled in helping others develop. It has been rare for me to step into a college class room and have the teacher ask us what we want to do.. sometimes this happens but it's usualy only when our class has progressed ahead of schdual so we have an extra amount of time, or in the team sports comparison, when the practice emediatly postdates either a big game, or a period of intence work..
I would also note that I have played on a team that was not oriented like this, when I used to play youth soccer when I was about 15 our couch stopped couching, we didn't want to split up so we desided to couch ourselves.. didn't work nearly as well.. very few of us had the drive to go through with it and without an authoritarian body it was imposable to inforce any real rules, the team was ok but over time it degraded. I do not think this would have happened if we had someone in charge that you couldn't say no to. Simularly I have been in classes with new teachers who were very passive in comparison to the more established teachers, and again in those situations the students who lacked greater than average motivation did not improve much.
So ultimately I think if you go to someone and ask "will you teach me how to do X" and than go and say "but I don't want to practice Y right now I want to practice Z" you are basicly shooting yourself in the foot.
The student who's knowledge is most likely inferior to the instructors very rarely will know what is best.
Neither situation the individual has alot of say because the reason you go to class/practice is to objectivly improve and your own view of yourself is always gona be subjective.. so you go to someone skilled in helping others develop. It has been rare for me to step into a college class room and have the teacher ask us what we want to do.. sometimes this happens but it's usualy only when our class has progressed ahead of schdual so we have an extra amount of time, or in the team sports comparison, when the practice emediatly postdates either a big game, or a period of intence work..
I would also note that I have played on a team that was not oriented like this, when I used to play youth soccer when I was about 15 our couch stopped couching, we didn't want to split up so we desided to couch ourselves.. didn't work nearly as well.. very few of us had the drive to go through with it and without an authoritarian body it was imposable to inforce any real rules, the team was ok but over time it degraded. I do not think this would have happened if we had someone in charge that you couldn't say no to. Simularly I have been in classes with new teachers who were very passive in comparison to the more established teachers, and again in those situations the students who lacked greater than average motivation did not improve much.
So ultimately I think if you go to someone and ask "will you teach me how to do X" and than go and say "but I don't want to practice Y right now I want to practice Z" you are basicly shooting yourself in the foot.
The student who's knowledge is most likely inferior to the instructors very rarely will know what is best.