Independent Study?

When Class 209 She-ren (張世仁) told me yesterday that she had finished reading My Sister's Keeper, I thought to myself, "Does she need to sit in the classroom?" I remember four years ago Ken (王慶剛) and Carol (林琪亞), two students in my Advanced English Class when they were in their first year, didn't attend the regular class in their second year; instead, they did independent study in the library, reading English novels such as Tuesdays with Morrie, The Catcher in the Rye, etc. and writing book reports. I believe they learned more on their own than if they had sat in the classroom.

However, taking the formal class, students practice speaking English. Two sides of a coin!