[TChris]

What elitist and arrogant blather.

profession
-noun

1. a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare "learned profession".
2. any vocation or business.
3. the body of persons engaged in an occupation or calling: to be respected by the medical profession.

(From www.dictionary.com : profession)

It's a simple, and deceptive, thing to make up your own definition of a word, then show how another does or doesn't meet that definition.

Leftists love to play this game by calling GWB a "failure" and a "liar". They also regularly claim that we are "losing" the war in Iraq. If they are allowed to define the words "failure", "liar" and "losing", then they will always be right.

How about agreeing to use the actual definitions of words, to ensure that we all understand what we're talking about?

Teaching is a profession, according to the dictionary. That's good enough for me. The doctors and lawyers can go throw a tantrum somewhere else.

[wintertime]

Teaching is a profession, according to the dictionary.

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Who writes the dictionary? Yes, of course! Academics!

The true definition is to compare what teachers do with what those in other professions do. By that objective criteria, teachers are NOT professionals. Why? Because they do not ACT professionally!