@Zeb_Larson @MisuseCase I've always wished that there could be a middle ground created of "Lecturers" whose job is to teach, they are paid a reasonable teacher's salary, and do not have a research burden. They can be paid a bit less but not poverty wages like adjuncts.
But you are so correct that there is no "prestige" in teaching. Or, better put, that many people who get through the gauntlet of a PhD are those have been taught that there is no "prestige" in teaching.
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