“The main duty of a university is not to teach economics and sociology and psychology; it is to teach the student to see the past and its greatness.”

Gilbert Highet

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About Gilbert Highet

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Gilbert Arthur Highet was a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, and literary critic. He was a long-time professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia University, where he inspired generations of students with his...

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