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Full Idea
Culture - as we know it - is an instrument manipulated by teachers for manufacturing more teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
Gist of Idea
Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Towns')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.68
A Reaction
Lot of truth in this. We tend to view our greatest successes in students who become academics and teachers. Culture is very much seen as something which must be 'transmitted' to each new generation.