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Super weird take IMO- I remember reading Feynman talk about how being able to teach was critical to being a great researcher. Similarly it seems that lots of fa
by jppope 5y ago
Super weird take IMO- I remember reading Feynman talk about how being able to teach was critical to being a great researcher. Similarly it seems that lots of faculty utilize the various experiences and perspectives of their graduate students to advance their own research. Teaching helps give them ideas so to speak.
- godelski 5y agoBeing able to teach is very different from the troubles of grading. I do enjoy teaching. But grading is draining and extremely time consuming. The only way it isn't extremely time consuming is to do it in a half assed manner. Which is why that is likely so common. Honestly, being inside academia I think one of the big reasons for grade inflation is simply because the effort it takes to grade seriously (and other academic politics that couple with this create bad incentive structures where you aren't focused on teaching nor on research).
- smcl 5y agoYou have misread the comment completely. The commenter isn't unhappy that they have to teach at all, in fact it appears that they are happy with that ("There is no shortage of people who want to do a good job teaching"). The issue is that they're forced to do far too much of it, and in this specific case grading hundreds of handwritten lab reports per week.