> And yet the amount of money going into research and pedagody hasn't really grown at all Indeed. At the big research universities that many people aspire to

> And yet the amount of money going into research and pedagody hasn't really grown at all Indeed. At the big research universities that many people aspire to attend, students are paying tens of thousands of dollars for the part-time attention of professors who are not paid full-time (or even half time, or anything close to it) to teach and develop educational materials. In my experience as a undergrad/grad student and TA, many view teaching as an unfortunate requirement of the job, or if you're lucky, a fun hobby may or may not have time for that week. When a professor gets busy with other things, teaching the first sacrifice. Normally they don't hire nearly enough TAs to pick up the slack. It's absolutely crazy. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I paid for those four years, when most of my learning came from YouTube lectures and pirated textbook PDFs.