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What Future the Professions (1960)
Volume 23. Argo, 1996.
5 Cassettes [Transcript: 93 pages]
... a profession means three things: a brotherhood of the people who do the same thing, a service to the people who are in need of it, and the recognition by the leaders of the community, that this service is done in the right manner by this group of colleagues...
January 25, 1960
To turn the hearts of the children to their parents" means to make them into professional people. That is, to make them inherit a spirit, which they have invented, and which they do not discover themselves, despite all pragmatism.
January 28, 1960
The central issue here might be called the problem of how thought is circulated and vitality is maintained. The underlying assumption is that any idea that is to live longer than one human life must be institutionalized. The topic of "professional" is used to apply, by inference, to the practice and teaching of all services needed by the community requiring professional knowledge from doctor, lawyer, and teacher to plumber, and carpenter. The author points out the disastrous consequences when the relationships between the professionals and their colleagues, their clients, and the law break down. Four 1-hour lectures.
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