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)

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

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