Graduate student Quote by Clayton M. Christensen

Since universities are funded in large parts by grants that depend on costly research, they have every incentive to free professors from their teaching…

— Bret Weinstein

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try…

— Page Smith

We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries…

— Clayton M. Christensen

In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony…

— John Edensor Littlewood

“surveys show that over 90 percent of professors believe that their teaching is above average,”

— Derek Bok

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

— Albert Einstein

I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to…

— Nicholas Lemann

A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area…

— David W. Oxtoby

I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done…

— Marty Nemko

“Taking a preponderance of courses capped at fifteen or so undergraduates is important. Studying with faculty who are well treated by the institution and…

— Berlinerblau

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want…

— F. Sionil Jose