I think the strength comes from being forced to defend your positions. Any paper worth its salt anticipates and defuses most likely objections. It really does f

I think the strength comes from being forced to defend your positions. Any paper worth its salt anticipates and defuses most likely objections. It really does force away any areas where one might have hand-waved. I think (as someone else mentioned too) teaching is generally good because one never knows where and when a challenge may present itself, but I'd suspect a paper gives deeper results, whereas teaching gives broader results, and both give more than study with neither.