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TEACHING
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Copyright © Les A. Piegl. All rights reserved.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Throughout my career as a professor I was guided by the following proverb:
“Teachers affect eternity. One can never tell where their influence ends.”
Unfortunately, teaching has become a secondary activity for professors due to the rapid proliferation of research Universities. Once it was an honor to deliver the main lecture on a subject matter and it was normally reserved to the most senior professor. In today’s money hunting world almost all lectures are delivered by instructors or adjunct faculty while professors are engaged in fund raising and (largely useless) publication activities. Teaching should be considered a privilege and should be done with the highest level of responsibility, ethics and integrity. There is no excuse for skipping classes and there is no need for research professors. Teaching and research go hand-in-hand and one has to balance the two in order to maximize productivity. Or in the words of an old friend:
"Teaching without research is blind, research without teaching is sterile."
Everything in the world is the result of vision, leadership and proper strategic planning. Professors are role models, leaders, students want to look up to. They must lead by example, both in their professional as well as in their personal lives.
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