R. H. S. Carpenter, Author at New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Science news and science articles from New ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Fri, 16 Apr 1993 23:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 242057827 Letters: Must try harder /article/1829265-letters-must-try-harder-2/?utm_campaign=RSS|NSNS&utm_content=currents&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=NSNS Fri, 16 Apr 1993 23:00:00 +0000 http://mg13818695.500 If professors generally teach badly, it is simply a consequence of the
way they are selected. Here at Cambridge, contributions to teaching are
regarded as being, if anything, somewhat reprehensible. Since promotion
is based entirely on research, and there are only a finite number of hours
in a day, the result is inevitable. However, by a curious – but fortunate
– irony, one of the main duties imposed on professors by the university
is to limit their teaching hours; thus poor teachers are additionally rewarded
by being excused from doing it at all.

R. H. S. Carpenter University of Cambridge

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