It seems that in very many lecture courses there are Power Point slides with a bulleted list of points from the textbook that the professor reads aloud, without explaining. Exams are multiple choice and come from the test bank of the textbook. You can tell the test bank you want fifty medium-hard questions and it makes you a test.
This is not what I would consider teaching but it explains a lot. The same faculty run meetings, I think, and this might explain why meetings do not have discussion but announcements made from Power Point slides.
This seems to be the old Sorbonne style: “a professor, reading his book, word for word, for an hour and students taking notes (those who could not afford to buy the book)” with “word-for-word, comma-for-comma memorization…expected for success on the exams at the end of the term.”
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
The “banking model” of education (Freire) is our past and our future as well. In some cases our present. I remember Carlos Bousoño reciting his book “Teoría de la expresión poética” for the students in the UC program in Madrid. I lasted one day in that class. Now I realize that his method of pedagogy is perfectly compatible with his theory of poetry, which is that he poet has an experience and transmits it to the reader unproblematically. Now I realize why people criticize my teaching as too Socratic.
The way I have learned best is having the crap scared out of me in seminars when I was unprepared or out of my depth with the subject matter. But professors seldom dare to confront their students any more.
I know, people come to college ignorant and the professors must teach them, but this is a dynamic and painful process if it is to mean anything.
JM, Carlos Bousoño, that is funny! Banking model, yes, but what amazes me in the present case is that students without literacy skills yet are doing this. Maybe it always was that way and I just missed it. I had lectures from good lecturers and they didn’t ask you to regurgitate, and when someone read from their book it was, say, Bersani reading from the mss. of his new book in a graduate seminar. But it does seem that the banking model is back.
H, glad you think it is normal to have it dynamic and painful. I also like to be out of depth. I could make my life much easier by not confronting and have been considering. You are making me reconsider.