Some Thoughts on Teaching and Research

“Few suspicions can become as personally offensive to a student as the notion that teaching is shortchanged at the expense of a monombniacal concern with research, which is an activity that competes with teaching. Such worries can be fed by complaints of beloved teachers that their teaching is unrewarded. There is also the commonsensical observation that anything that is done well calls for blood, sweat and sacrifice, which would not describe a teaching sideline-such as hastily prepared lectures--by someone whose heart is in the laboratory or in an overdue manuscript for an obscure journal.” No Date.