While quality of teachers is a very significant issue, I find it extremely difficult to believe that the solution to the issues with the our current quality of education is to reduce the total time a teacher is able to spend with each student individually.
If teachers are unable to discover a students strengths and/or weaknesses until after assessment the issue cannot be addressed, and given the already tight time constraints placed on them to keep moving forward they may not be able to go back through and resolve the problem.
In regards to the other involved party in the matter, the students, larger classes enable them to more easily "fly under the radar" enabling them to be disruptive to not only their own education but also to the students around them. There would also be a problems with students not wanting to speak up about issues they are having due to the larger, more intimidating, number of students who, as far as they know, are not facing the same problems they are.
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