You can learn a thing or two from the institution you throw money at. As hard as they try to squander it on professors who make less sense than a thousand monkeys on a typewriter, they occasionally spend it on a prof that can teach. A prof who doesn't put students to sleep, who actually keeps them interested, who raises questions and keeps them coming back class after class.

There is a quota on this type of prof, it;s no more than 2 per faculty at UW.