There was an article in Science last year[1] that backs this anecdote up with statistics. Graduate students who teach in addition to performing research are bet

There was an article in Science last year[1] that backs this anecdote up with statistics. Graduate students who teach in addition to performing research are better at designing experiments than students who perform research alone, despite the vast amount of time that teaching consumes. [1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/1037.full http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/1037.full