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> At my university, I was taught by professors and grad students, none of whom had a teaching degree.

Professors and grad students may well have done a course on how to lecture. It is obligatory and/or an easy way to pick up credits in many PhD programs. In any event, grad students teaching badly, because the department has allowed the more competent faculty to put their teaching burden on grad students, is a common complaint about US universities.



Maybe that's a new thing, because I've never heard of it.

I have recommended to professionals that they take a public speaking course, but those were not part of any degree program.


> Maybe that's a new thing, because I've never heard of it.

You mentioned in another post attending a lecture from Feynman. I think you might be a few decades behind modern academia.


> I think you might be a few decades behind modern academia.

Definitely. And I've seen no evidence there's been any improvement. More like things have gotten worse.




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