Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.