Why do you try to get out of teaching all the time, Tecs?

"In the 1950s by when Oppenheimer had become the IAS's third director, the Nobel laureate Feynman turned down a professorship at the institute. In his engaging and ungrammatical style, he was more convincing than Oppenheimer in explaining why. Said Feynman:

"When I was at Princeton in the 1940's I can see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves. Okay? So they don't get an idea for a while. They have every opportunity to do something and they are not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. and nothing happens. Still no ideas come.

"Feynman said that in his own infertile periods his students jerked his mind toward a problem by asking questions in the neighborhood of that problem. It's not so easy to remind yourself of these things. I find that teaching and the students keep life going and I would never accept any position in which somebody had invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never."