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It is right that thinking about careers is refreshed and made far more relevant to the world that we live in. You spoke about those who need the service most.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence."
It makes it very difficult for people who want to come in and form the labour pool to find somewhere to live. The house has vanished. Maybe we have seen the loss of some shepherds because the shepherd’s house is no longer available for a shepherd to come and live in.
I have travelled around Europe a great deal and I lived in Italy for a long time. There is just not such an atmosphere elsewhere—it is a peculiarly British thing.
Teachers will not sit in a classroom for their whole lives just because they have the professionalism that you describe; they can be professional at a higher level, as many people strive to be.
Grandparents play a huge role in the lives of their grandchildren. I know of a lot of cases in which grandparents have taken over the care of grandchildren.