In your opinion, which of these professions is most essential: medicine, law or education?

[Jankec]

Because they are the ones who teach future doctors and lawyers.

University professors of medicine are always doctors. They have the best knowledge both of theory and praxis.

The best law professors also previously worked as judges, state attorneys, lawyers, diplomats etc.

[Victor]

Everyone is important. It's important to have quality doctors, but when your car engine will break down or your water pipes inside the house gonna blow up you're not gonna call a professor or a surgeon to fix it. Just like vet won't be able to cope with an eye surgery.

[Petalpusher]

As specific professions about equal. More in general that would be law, education and medecine. Law is what humanity deemed more important to function in early society, maybe along some basic parental education. Animals only do education.

Below animals, so myself, i just need a doc.

[Oghuz]

I'd say medicine, as we need doctors and to an extent nurses in times of difficulty with our health and lives. In contrast, lots of people attend trials without having lawyers representing them (goodness knows, I work in enough cases where that happens), and homeschooling is reasonably common and not necessarily disadvantageous for children.

Without education, you would not have any other field.