Response to Vasa, Dr. Dawson and Martin

Thank you all for your comments about the post on forced learning and imagination/creativity/motivation. I read in one of the papers for my class paper that some teachers see undergraduates as not having the maturity to be in more adult-learning-theory situations. I feel this is a little off base. What do you guys think? As long as the instructor makes the topic of the course something that interests the students and develops fun, thought-provoking interactive activities for the students to participate in, then I don't see this as being a problem. Do some faculty write off undergraduates just on the notion that they are not mature enough to interact in a learning environment? Is it too much of a challenge? Or do they just not have the time to make their course an interactive, learning-based one? Just thinking outloud... :)