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by michael_dorfman
5350 days ago
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but a professor can’t just teach a few calculus courses without being affiliated with a university? There's nothing stopping a professor from doing just that; there's no legal requirement that all calculus courses be affiliated with a university. However, there seem to be some very good reasons (some market-based, in fact) why this is not the business model most professors choose. |
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There was a relevant quote posted recently by "tokenadult": “the diligence of public teachers is more or less corrupted by the circumstances which render them more or less independent of their success and reputation in their particular professions.. . . . The privileges of graduation, besides, are in many countries . . . obtained only by attending the lectures of the public teachers. . . . The endowment of schools and colleges have, in this manner, not only corrupted the diligence of public teachers, but have rendered it almost impossible to have any good private ones." -- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Part 3, Article II (1776)