I am a slow reader, and the language obstacle makes the reading much slower. It will be very helpful if a teacher can point out some classic research to me as a start point, rather than just tell me “search on your own”.

This kind of help can be achieved in many ways, such as attending a well-designed course, listening to a well-prepared lecture, asking professor questions, participating in a research project, and so on. For me, all of them involve teaching and learning.

Also – there are a great many of us who have come to learn from you, the teachers, who could care less about research. I know that the life I live and the luxeries I enjoy are a product of the research that occurs at universities, but I’m not interested in becoming a researcher – graduate education != researcher wannabe. Some of us are just trying to better ourselves.

I just had this discussion the other day… Universities aren’t here to teach is my position, it is based on an understanding of the university where ‘teaching’ and ‘lectures’ are fairly recent historical advents that arose to manage populations of students. universities are here to provide a space for learning–to provide the material, models, and the guidance for that learning. this is contrary to most people’s thoughts which regard universities of yet one more level of certification…. but such is life. i’d say look toward the history of universities for the models.