I had a university timesheet returned because ‘thinking’ was an inadequate description of my activity. I changed it to ‘cognitive reflective practices’ and my timesheet was accepted.
This illustrates two aspects of academic life. Firstly, if you dress things up to sound academic, what you say is more likely to be treated with respect. Secondly, time for simply thinking appears undervalued in universities.
And yet, without time to stare, think about nothing in particular and have no pressure to be productive, where is creativity and inspiration to come from? Perhaps it is time for a campaign for slower deeper thinking.
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