Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.
The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
In Milan, I'm treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It's wonderful living where artists are revered.
We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
Most MBA graduates are hungry for intellectual glamour.
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
