This thread made me think of a conversation my partner had with their mother the other day. They were telling mom about a history book they had been reading and their mom said "oh you should think about being a teacher."
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Owl at the Library
Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.
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Why make it a "career" why is learning just to learn not enough.