Teaching Company - GREAT COURSES by America's Top Professors


	More than 1,500 of the top schools across the United States, Canada, and Australia offer practical and highly effective ed2go online courses on just about every topic you can imagine - from Creating Web Pages to Accounting Fundamentals, Speed Spanish to Grant Writing, Medical Terminology to Real Estate Investing, and much, much more. And every course includes an instructor. You won't find any tutorials here!

About Us

Who We Are

The Teaching Company brings engaging professors into your home or car through courses on DVD, audio CD, and other formats. Since 1990, great teachers from the Ivy League, Stanford, Georgetown, and other leading colleges and universities have crafted over 200 courses for lifelong learners. We provide the adventure of learning, without the homework or exams.

Our mission:

To ignite the passion for lifelong learning by offering great courses taught by great professors .

Our values:

Excellence. Start with the best, then make it better.
Cultivate every resource. Confront, accept, and improve hard facts.
Hard work for solid results.
Fair and lasting relationships with our customers and our employees. And expect the same in return.
Integrity. Period.
What we've done:

With input and feedback from our customers since 1990, we've found the top 100 teaching professors in the country.
With those great professors, we have produced 200 great courses—over 2,000 hours of material in literature, philosophy, history, fine arts, the sciences, economics, and religion.
We have delivered millions of lectures to hundreds of thousands of people we are proud to call our customers.
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How The Teaching Company Began

The Teaching Company was founded in 1990 by Thomas M. Rollins, former Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

Years earlier, as a Harvard Law School student, Rollins had an unforgettable experience that opened his eyes to the extraordinary power of a great lecturer captured on tape.

Rollins was facing an important exam in the Federal Rules of Evidence but was not well prepared. He managed to obtain videotapes of 10 one-hour lectures by a noted authority on the subject, Professor Irving Younger.

"I dreaded what seemed certain to be boring," Rollins says. "I thought that few subjects could be as dull as the Federal Rules of Evidence. But I had no other way out."

Rollins planted himself in front of the TV and played all 10 hours nearly non-stop. The lectures, he says, "were outrageously insightful, funny, and thorough." Watching Professor Younger's lectures was one of Rollins's best experiences as a student.

Rollins made an "A" in the course. And he never forgot the unique power of recorded lectures by a great teacher.

After many years of government service, Rollins founded The Teaching Company in 1990 to ignite people's passion for lifelong learning by offering great courses taught by great professors.

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