On the Uselessness of English Teachers

The profession par excellence of the vulgar middle class

The English Teacher is the profession par excellence of the vulgar middle class, producing, as it does, nothing of lasting value, and existing only to propagate its own existence.

Those who decide to study English in higher education (usually because they are incapable of studying any more demanding subject) inevitably go on to teach it.

The decision to move into the profession presumably occurs when the English graduate realises that few other avenues of employment are open to a person with only a certificate in speaking his own, native language.