Being Active in Research Makes a Person a Better Teacher and Even Helps When Working for a Company

Authors

Francisco Zapata, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

11-2020

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-118

Published in International Mathematical Forum, 2020, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 417-420.

Abstract

At first glance, it looks like being active in research is not necessarily related to a person's success in being a teacher or being a productive company employee -- moreover, it looks like research distracts from other tasks. Somewhat surprisingly, however, in practice, the best teachers and the best employees are actually the ones who are active in research. In this paper, we provide an explanation for this seemingly counter-intuitive phenomenon.