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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]many tenured professors are in cruise control regarding undergrad teaching, or were never very good to begin with. [/quote]

Multiple professors have chimed in.  We spent many years in school, and experienced all this!  There are good and bad teachers at all levels.  More experienced ones are usually better because people learn, and bad ones get filtered out.  Also, good research is positively correlated with good teaching.  The ability to write and present new research is similar to explaining simpler concepts.

Professors often send our kids to SLAC's.

Think about Montessori schools.  You don't need a college degree to teach 4-year-olds.  And the Montessori pedagogy is not essential.  Instead, it is important to have well-paid, experienced, and enthusiastic child caretakers.  Otherwise, when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Finally, many undergrads are clueless.  They take courses from anybody based on convenience or easy grading.  They end up in huge classes and hide in the back of the lecture hall.  As a student, I always found it easy to get hard technical classes.[/quote]

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