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Simone Weil

La culture est un instrument manié par des professeurs pour fabriquer des professeurs qui à leur tour fabriqueront des professeurs.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who, when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots, part 2: “Uprootedness,” chapter 1: “Uprootedness in the Towns” (1949).

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