"Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it."
— Professional

January 1, 1970

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Walter Benjamin, "The Life of Students" (1915), in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings – vol. 1: 1913-1926 (Harvard University Press: 1996), p. 38