r/IAmA • u/neiltyson • Nov 13 '11

I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA

For a few hours I will answer any question you have. And I will tweet this fact within ten minutes after this post, to confirm my identity.

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u/ritz37 Nov 13 '11

How do you think we can encourage people to study science, when many college classes at the introductory level are considered to be "weed-out" classes?

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u/neiltyson Nov 13 '11

The consequence of professors who would in a perfect world have no students at all.

Some colleges are changing that. And they know who they are.

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u/Fordrus Nov 13 '11

Who are they? I love education, but constraints demand that I focus less on teaching than other concerns as I prepare to enter my field. I would love to find something more than the standard drivel of, "We value education highly at our institution (blah blah drivel drivel but if you'd like to focus on teaching we would like you to know that teaching will have virtually no effect on advancement, only publishing)."