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AGDee, I agree with you. My private school also emphasized analyzing the information and critical thinking quite a bit. Conversely, my experience at Utah State for a semester taking upper level sociology courses left something to be desired for me. I felt like it was easy to pass classes there as long as you just memorized lecture notes, at my private school it wasn't so easy. Even though it was huge, the professors also still made time for us and often we had opportunities to work with them on their research. It provided a really good balance.
When I went to graduate school at a public university for History, however, there was also a lot of effort put into critical thinking and discussion with the professors. But part of that could also have been that we were mostly fellowship recipients and they were trying to make sure we'd produce good research in the future. Anyway, my guess is there are strong and weak public and private schools, and that it probably has to do more with the school itself than the type of school.
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