Can you hold 'something' rather than 'someone' in high esteem?
I have the following paragraph:
The building behind us used to be a school. It was closed down in the 1980s because of the PKK-perpetrated murders on school-teachers, whom they saw as agents of the Turkish state. Today the building is still used as a storage space and the children have to commute the 50 kilometres to the city for education, or do not go at all. This is a hard lot for a region where education is traditionally held in high esteem...
What else should I write?
