“Part of the problem facing teaching in the contemporary world is that its status as a profession has been undermined by the contemptible view that only what makes money is admirable.”

— A. C. Grayling

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 19, “Teachers” (p. 83)

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