“who genuinely cares for their students…”

This to me is a bit of a slippy slope because it’s simply a repackage/reframe of the emotional labour demanded by employees.

It’s ok for an academic to teach because they are required to do it or simply need the money or on a purely transactional basis. Many academics do a very professional job on this basis.

Academia is a job like any other and framing it in terms of love in a system set up to exploit workers I think overall is a bad idea.

We shouldn’t guilt trip or gaslit academics around this topic.