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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 3969951, member: 6696"] You are generalizing way too much here. Someone teaching philosophy 101 doesn't need to be a researcher. It is totally, totally unrelated. An MA student with a talent for teaching is going to be world's more useful than someone pumping out a book a year, who doesn't care about teaching (and many of them do). If we're talking about specialized higher-level courses that's a different story. But TBH are ANY undergrad courses really that specialized? There's also the differences between the sciences and humanities. The resources needed for top-tier bio department can only be had at big R1 schools. Less so for any kind of humanities or soft sciences. How many students "see themselves as a future knowledge producer"??? A tiny number of students actually go into academia. For kids going into undergrad that should be an afterthought. And community college absolutely does not preclude you from going to high-level schools for grad studies. My fiance started at a comm college, then went to UNC for her BS, Duke law school, and now she's finishing her PhD at Yale (started at UConn) this summer or fall. Plenty of stupid kids at UConn and Yale. More than plenty. Hell of a lot of brilliant students at MCC and Tunxis. [/QUOTE]