Osler: "Aequanimitas" - Student Life...its really about the teachers.

Successful teachers is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. The new methods have changed all this. He is no longer Sir Oracle...,but he is a senior student anxious to help his juniors...When a simple, earnest spirit animates a college, there is no appreciable interval between the teacher and the taught - both are in the same class, the one a little more advanced than the other. So animated. the student feels that he has joined a family whose honour, whose welfare is his own, and whose interests should be his first consideration.

From p75. Osler by Charles Bryan (Oxford Univ. Press, 1997)

This is quoted from "Aequanimitas" series by Osler. Title: The Student Life.