Exploring academia a bit (4 institutions for my bachelors, then 2 more doing boring but useful stuff in labs surrounded by PhDs), my rough impression is that the best teachers are adjuncts at low prestige colleges.
They tend to love their subject and relish the opportunity to teach smart people who are hungry to know things in their area. The fact that they are wasting their life and talents on a job that pays relatively little, and is insecure, and isn’t very high status… doesn’t bother them much because they just love teaching the subject.
Exploring academia a bit (4 institutions for my bachelors, then 2 more doing boring but useful stuff in labs surrounded by PhDs), my rough impression is that the best teachers are adjuncts at low prestige colleges.
They tend to love their subject and relish the opportunity to teach smart people who are hungry to know things in their area. The fact that they are wasting their life and talents on a job that pays relatively little, and is insecure, and isn’t very high status… doesn’t bother them much because they just love teaching the subject.