Hello Friends,
This is something I have speculated about but never had the guts to share with anyone.
It makes sense to me that if you have to do research to keep your job, you'll do
research for that sake and not for the sake of gaining knowledge, and that the
research produced will be mostly of dubious quality.
Does anyone know HOW the culture of university/college life was taken over by the idea
that just doing teaching is not good enough? Where did this come from? Is it purely
driven by the corporate funding that often accompanies research projects, or is is
just an offshoot of some kind of inferiority complex, that teaching isn't like
"working in the real world" and that dumb cliche - "Those who can, do, those who can't
teach."?
Sincerely curious,
Nancy Melucci
ELAC
