10-second review: How define a “professional”? Abraham Flexner (1915) on defining a profession: A profession involves essentially intellectual operations with large individual responsibility; derives raw materials from science and learning; works this material up to a practical and definite end.
Source: WA Jenkins. “A Sense of Profession.” 519.
Comment: Therefore, a professional uses intellectual operations based on science and learning, has individual responsibility with results that are practical. RayS.
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