I agree. One thing that is pretty depressing to anyone that spends time in grad school or in academia is that universities and colleges put barely any importanc

I agree. One thing that is pretty depressing to anyone that spends time in grad school or in academia is that universities and colleges put barely any importance on a professor/scholar's teaching ability. Education is simply not the main focus at all. Instead, they view scholars as research machines. Rather than giving research and scholarly inquiry the time and patience it requires (a lot), they would have published research occur like clockwork and in many cases regardless of the quality of that published research. This looks better for the school; but leads to middling research at best and often shady stuff by harried researchers, and a subpar teaching experience for most students who are always second fiddle to the endless demands to publish. The school benefits (per se, they don't like getting caught in scandals of their own making, of course), while researchers and students get subpar experiences all around.