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David Butterfield

The Spectator

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Most-read 2024: Decline and fall – how university education became infantilised

We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 2: David Butterfield’s cover piece from October on the...

30.12.2024 10

The Spectator

David Butterfield

Decline and fall: how university education became infantilised

Last month, after 21 years study-ing and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it’s precisely because I...

24.10.2024 70

The Spectator

David Butterfield