Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator
Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
“Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.”
— Claude Lévi-Strauss, book Tristes Tropiques
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 6 : The Making of an Anthropologist, p. 55
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