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>>In my humble opinion, the purpose of a professor at a university is to TEACH. Not research, that should be secondary to their teaching duties. No. PhDs are e
by enraged_camel 9y ago
>>In my humble opinion, the purpose of a professor at a university is to TEACH. Not research, that should be secondary to their teaching duties.
No. PhDs are extremely specialized on a very narrow topic within a single field. They spend years researching that topic to the exclusion of everything else.
Asking PhDs to teach is like asking brain surgeons to treat common cold. They probably can do it, but it's a gross waste of their skills and expertise.
- barry-cotter 9y agoIf there is no demand for your skills they can’t be wasted. There’s no necessary reason why being really good at literary criticism is any more socially valuable than being really good at Counter Strike. If no one’s willing to pay you for it I hope you had fun learning to do it because otherwise it was a waste.