Stop Lecturing Me

I agree with everything said in this piece, but would add one additional bit: teaching effectively isn't incentivized only because of federal grant-seeking problems, but also because the lecture format itself is cheap and maximizes profit per head.

I've witnessed this firsthand in college instructional discussions, where everyone knows what better instruction would look like, based on data. But it's too expensive to implement: it would require more classroom space with more instructors, and so forth and so on.

Lecturing is simply the cheapest in-person way to deliver educational services. That's it. The only thing cheaper might be to offer those lectures online. But even there there's evidence it's not as effective. So you're left with lectures.