Bill,

>>  Professors' job is to teach, that's what they are there for.
>
> Many professors' jobs are to do research, bring in juicy grants,
> publish papers, and bring prestige to the university.  Teaching
> can be incidental.  Sigh.
>
> Which can be why people might be better off at less prestigious
> schools...

I know what you're talking about, but the colleges that I attended were the 
less prestigious ones you're talking about - without grants, or professors 
doing research and publishing papers. Perhaps the education I got was of the 
same quality, only cheaper. ;-)

Education and medicine are two fields where the "invisible hand" doesn't 
work too well. I still don't understand why, though. Perhaps because the 
quality of service does not depend as much on the satisfaction of the 
consumers, as it does in other industries?

Best regards,

Vitaliy 

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