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They do share intelligence and knowledge of the subject, and being able to break down your knowledge into parts is useful for a researcher too. I think requiring researchers to teach at least some undergraduate classes is a good idea, because it serves as a form of professional development, keeping them in touch with the basics and keeps them integrated in university life. Although there should be recourse if a researcher is a particularly bad teacher, normally they do quite well.
In my experience university teachers really don't give a crap about the students understanding anything and think all the technical low-level calculaton grunt work is so beneath them it doesn't deserve any attention. Ask any of them to derivate a freaking tangent and watch them sweat.
What subject was taught by this professor who had trouble taking the derivative of a tangent?
Here is his page Guy is apparently a highlevel mather, but completely out of touch with peasant-level calculations, apparently.
Huh, I have never run into such a person, though I've run into a few professors who were bad teachers. But in your experience it's common: you say "In my experience university teachers really don't give a crap about the students understanding anything".
Is it really that common? Are you generalizing too much?
Maybe it's a difference between different countries. Have you read Richard Feynman's account of teaching in Brazil?
Nope. Do tell.
Well, in short, science education in Brazil was consistently terrible because it taught students to value memorization but not understanding. In long, you can read his account here.
So... like Japan?