In a perfect world barbers would not need a license to cut hair, lawyers would not need expensive law degrees, and teachers could enter the profession with whatever relevant life experience they had accrued.

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The experience of the medical profession suggests not.

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This is not how you attract good people to a profession, or how you guarantee a good education experience for your children.

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Thus fiction fashioned by practitioners of another profession can be refreshing for the information and insights that experience outside a book-lined room provides.

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What went on in the officer's head is something that I can only guess but, based on over 30 years of experience in the doing, teaching and studying of the police profession, I would venture to say that race had nothing to do with the behavior displayed and that the sub-culture of police work dictated the action, more than any possible bias or prejudice.

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Very quickly I began to experience personal fulfillment by being able to help people through my chosen profession.

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His jungle combat experience of treating wounded soldiers with scant medical supplies prompted him to enter the medical profession upon his return to France and his subsequent move to America, with Suzanne, in the 1950s.

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Perhaps no profession has taken the implications of the quarterback problem more seriously than the financial-advice field, and the experience of financial advisers is a useful guide to what could happen in teaching as well.

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