Newsgroups: ut.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: PhDs vs. teaching
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.215619.27824@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 21:56:19 GMT

A week or two ago I posted an article about PhDs and teaching and so on.
I've just been slightly horrified by the realization that it could have
been taken two different ways.  "PhDs are all lousy teachers and we'd be
better off replacing them with undergrads" is *not* what I meant to say!
Now that all my faculty friends are now ex-friends :-), I'd like to
clarify what I meant.

The intent was to point out that possession of a PhD does not always
imply strong teaching ability, that teaching ability is more important
than PhD-level technical background for teaching first-year courses, and
that it would seem possible to make more effective use of available
manpower.  Sorry if anyone was offended; it wasn't deliberate.
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