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I think there is another angle to it. After a major result, is the purpose to continue finding major results or broadcast, proselytize, and teach. One of the c
by mathgladiator 6y ago
I think there is another angle to it. After a major result, is the purpose to continue finding major results or broadcast, proselytize, and teach.
One of the crazy things that I have found as a senior engineer, I focus much more on growing people in the space I created. Afterall, if the space I create can't be occupied by people, then I failed.
For Einstein, how much of his time was dedicated towards the education of ideas versus trying to solve new problems. I don't know, but it is worth considering what the purpose of tenure. Is the idea of tenure to encourage people to find new results, or to continue teaching their ideas?
- webmaven 6y agoI understood tenure to more or less mean "We've found your contributions valuable enough to date that we are now ensuring that you can never be fired for having the 'wrong' opinions, thus guaranteeing your academic freedom." Whether that academic freedom is intended to enable teaching or further research probably varies by institution and subject/department, and maybe individually as well.