<p>I heard a Stanford professor say on Book Notes that all professors at Stanford are required to teach undergraduates regularly.</p>
<p>my personal goal for grad school is to learn the ins and outs of medicine and politics(which I could also probably accomplish by working on a campaign).</p>
<p>While I know that my academic career has only just begun, I want to go to grad school to learn how to be effective in my career. I don't care about the government of thailand or botswana. I care about the nitty-gritty of politics. I also want to do numbers analysis which will tell me where is the best place to set up shop after grad school as a doctor/politician.</p>
<p>For example, I know of a lawyer who graduated from setonhurst college in northern nj with a ok gpa and ok lsats who got in to yale law school by answering the prompt "Why do you want to become a lawyer?" with "because I want to make someone cry on the witness stand"</p>
<p>While I disagree with the reason for going to grad school as the aforementioned lawyer. I do know what I want to do and how I want to get there. At duke, I will be VERY frank with my premajor advisor about the goals I have.</p>
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That has not been my experience at Michigan. While some professors may be able to use grants to buy out of their teaching altogether, I don't believe that's a large proportion of the faculty. Perhaps its different elsewhere.</p>
<p>Research and publication are important, but I don't think it's common for a professor to spend NO time teaching.
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<p>I should have been clearer: The school will not expect you to spend your time teaching. At least this is what the UCs have suggested to me. Publish or perish!</p>