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Can the ancient Greeks help solve our university crises?

Can the ancient Greeks help solve our university crises?

Update: 2025-10-08
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The headlines scream about a university sector in crisis. 

Are they credential factories or places of pure intellectual inquiry? 

For historian Peter Harrison of Notre Dame University, the sector should reach right back to the ancient wisdom of the Greeks for inspiration. 

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Peter Harrison is the author of the new book, Some New World

He’s also delivering the 2025 New College lectures at UNSW, titled “God and the Secular University”.

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Can the ancient Greeks help solve our university crises?

Can the ancient Greeks help solve our university crises?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation