TEACHING ANIMAL BREEDING AND TRAINING GRADUATE STUDENTS

Abstract

I began teaching in a Kansas high school 56 years ago. What I say here is based on the ensuing half century of experience. I believe these remarks are true although, of course, I wish they could be based more solidly on the results of well-designed experiments with controls. Immediately on completing my Ph.D. degree, I did research for more than 8 years, with almost no interruption for teaching. I am glad it happened that way. If I had taught the same course as much as three times in succession, using the available texts and my graduate notes and all the rest of what I thought I knew, I would surely have come to believe those things myself so firmly that the errors among them could scarcely have been corrected by any likely amount of subsequent experience.