I'm not so sure that having produced new knowledge is so vital to teaching old knowledge, at least not at the scale that's required for a tenure-track job. It'

I'm not so sure that having produced new knowledge is so vital to teaching old knowledge, at least not at the scale that's required for a tenure-track job. It's good for a teacher to not be locked into a static view of old knowledge, but I don't think that requires anything like the breakneck amount of publishing that's expected in many fields today.