‘Everyone can do difficult things’: The surprise Sydney school offering Latin
Caringbah High School in Sydney has successfully revived its Latin program after years of declining interest across New South Wales. Teacher Andrew Gollan, a former software engineer, leads the program which has seen steady student enrollment.
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The revival of classical languages in public education highlights shifting curriculum priorities and the efforts of individual educators to preserve niche academic subjects.
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Share A A A Andrew Gollan has had quite the career. After completing an arts degree in Latin and ancient Greek in the 1990s, he moved to America, became a US resident and worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer. But he felt there was more to life than writing code.
“I really wanted to do something which, I thought, was important,” he said.
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