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> Serious students are there to learn from competent teachers- i.e. someone that is proficient in the art of conveying knowledge, not merely possessing knowledge or having successfully brought grant monies to their university.

These two are largely diametrically opposed.

- Any professor bringing in significant grant money is at an R1 school.

- R1 schools are famous for bad teaching by the tenured faculty, largely because quality teaching doesn’t gain them much.

- Quality teaching can be found, often in abundance, at small colleges. Some of these colleges do not have weeder courses. There are some serious students at these colleges. These are the rare exceptions, imho.




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