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Rene Guenon worked as a high school philosophy teacher

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Being a towering intellect of traditionalist thought still requires grading terrible essays. Before moving to Cairo, Guenon paid his rent by trying to force bored French teenagers to care about basic philosophical concepts in public provincial schools.

Rene Guenon worked as a high school philosophy teacher
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