<p>Frankly, a professor should be required to get an M.Ed. minimum in addition to their PhDs. My mom has an M.Ed. and frankly has less impressive degress than 90% of her colleagues (who all had PhDs in some obscure liberal art), and when she was in teaching she was one of the best teachers her students have ever had.</p>
<p>For the record I’m not a Sternie. But Stern profs seem to be more grounded in reality in general. I almost always go for the profs that a) nobody’s ever heard of or b) have a university-wide reputation for being good. The two best profs I had in the econ department don’t even show up on the econ department roster.</p>
<p>And yes, I’m expecting to DREAD law school. I’m expecting to LOVE being a lawyer. Law school is something I have to go through to get the license to practice law. That said, starting my 2L year I’m going to register for every clinical class I can get into. Forget law journals. I’ll take an externship at a law firm over a law journal. I’m going to law school and paying $70k a year to learn how to be a lawyer. Not just how to think like one.</p>
<p>He believes that if a class is 4 credits, then it means the class will not involve 20 hours of work. He also believes in reducing curriculum requirements and giving students more time to have fun.</p>
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<p>My school has 14k undergrad and is a research powerhouse. Not to mention, of course, for-profit corporate U do tend to have decent teachers.</p>
<p>I happen to go to the biggest private university in the country and I can tell you for fact that’s not true. They don’t have the best teachers. They have the people with the fanciest pieces of paper (degrees). The unfortunate mistake that my big Corporate U is making is that they don’t realize that smart=/=good teacher. Someone who’s an absolute idiot can be a good teacher. Einstein can in fact be a horrible teacher.</p>
<p>You misunderstood. By “for-profit corporate U” I quite literally mean a university that is registered as a for-profit corporation, or a subsidiary of one. And I’ve never met an idiot that was a good teacher. Not since elementary school, at least.</p>