from Stanley Fish and this is what I do in my class

(1) introduce students to bodies of knowledge and traditions of inquiry that had not previously been part of their experience; and (2) equip those same students with the analytical skills — of argument, statistical modeling, laboratory procedure — that will enable them to move confidently within those traditions and to engage in independent research after a course is over." All the rest is distortion, disruption, or at least distraction from what professors ought to do.