They may teach very well and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment.
Sucking on her cocktail onion, she gazed at Rita with her enormous, protuberant, slightly mad eye; 'He publishes important stories he thinks the public needs to know. He doesn't care about making money.'
There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated race to the finish line, whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or lucrative career.