Some of the things we need to value less, from my perspective, is pushing numbers - in terms of amount of papers you need to publish, but also the number of students you need to grade. Modern academia is set up to not cultivate slow thinking in any shape or form, unless you have climbed the ranks and have the luxury of doing research and to not have the burden of teaching. But if you are a part time (contract, adjunct) lecturer, just fighting to get another month's salary, slow thinking becomes a luxury you cannot afford (yet). There is always hope, so let us hope that things will get better. Thanks for the lovely comment.
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And if you get to the top the pillar and do the slow thinking, you get labelled a backwards or senile kook!
For sure. It seems like there is no real middle ground, and this is leaving me wondering what I really want from all of this!