> It turns out, teaching is not the main business of universities any more. Astronaut 1: You mean, the purpose of the university isn't to teach? Astronaut 2:

> It turns out, teaching is not the main business of universities any more. Astronaut 1: You mean, the purpose of the university isn't to teach? Astronaut 2: Never has been. Even in the 90s, when I was going to a second- or third-tier name brand university, the emphasis clearly wasn't on teaching but on snagging grant money and cranking out papers. Even the professors seemed to consider teaching an annoying distraction from their real jobs.