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:
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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Contact Us
You can reach us at the contact information provided below.
Thank you for your support, and we look forward to hearing from you!
E-mail: custserv@teachco.com
Phone: 1-800-TEACH-12 (1-800-832-2412)
Office hours: 9 a.m. to 12 midnight eastern time Monday through Friday; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time Saturday and Sunday. After hours, an automated voice mail system is
available.
Fax: 703-378-3819
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Mail:
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The Teaching Company
4840 Westfields Blvd., Suite 500
Chantilly, VA 20151
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