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“Notwithstanding the intense pressure on faculty members to publish, nationwide surveys indicate that they value teaching as highly as scholarly research.6 For every research…

— Clayton M. Christensen

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is…

— Arne Duncan

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

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

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to…

— Derek Bok

Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is the kiss…

— Max Boot

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.

— Michael Bennet

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the…

— Isaac Watts

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science;…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

— Derek Bok

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

— Bruce Rauner

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame…

— Arne Duncan