Creative Teaching and the Biology Curriculum

Abstract

enlargement of knowledge through research, then communication of the results of the research through publication. Hence-the dictum, publish or perish. In spite of sincere protestations to the contrary, it remains true that ambitious faculty members of large university departments generally reserve the major portion of their physical and intellectual energy for research and its publication and therefore give little more to teaching than is demanded of them. If they are successful at research, they are rewarded by less teaching, and the major teaching burden is often borne by those who have failed at research or who had little ambition to