<p>Who are the most popular professors at Columbia?
What do they teach?
Why are they so well-liked?</p>
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<p>They have gold nugget professors and ways of denoting good professors, which you can get in one big search clump by clicking on "gold nuggets" or by clicking this link: <a href="http://www.culpa.info/?root=greatest&process=browse%5B/url%5D">http://www.culpa.info/?root=greatest&process=browse</a> . That's in addition to ratings.</p>
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Why are they so well-liked?
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<p>For the same reason that teachers at your high school are well-liked. They're good teachers, make class interesting, engage students, like students, etc.</p>
<p>There is typically, but not always, an inverse relationship between the amount of research, book-writing, and speaking engagements professors do and their teaching ability. Of course, there are professors that do none of those things and still manage to be inept...and the rare few who can teach extremely well while engaging in them, but it seems that professors are of two kinds in general- either dedicated to teaching or to publishing. Do keep in mind, though, that even those professors highly distracted by research are not necessarily awful, just busy.</p>