It is probably rare for most people to hear praises sung for a one room school.
When my father was in the Navy in WWII I attended a one room school on the naval base. The school had one teacher and a class of about 30 kids spanning the age range from kindergarten to 8th grade.
I actually enjoyed the school, despite the great differences in ages in my classmates because I was allowed to learn and study at my own personal learning rate.
This is the exceptional value that I found in my one room school. I only attended for a year or two so I cannot deal with the fact that the teacher probably would have become irrelevant to me based on her low level of knowledge.
To me that one room school experience symbolizes the need for all educational systems to be adjusted to the level of learning skills of the individual.
From the time of my one room school until I finally got to University, at age 15, I found school to be irrelevant and deadly boring. I'm not speaking about the opportunity to look at girls in my class or in the halls. I am speaking about the academic material so readily forced down my throat which was of so little consequence or interest.
I know that excellent education as possible, increasingly so with access to the Internet. My personal experience suggests that learning does require individuals seeking information for themselves.