Ancient Ideas and Modern Life Skills in UK Prisons

Edith Hall · 7 Feb 2026

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Too few prisoners are helped to ask the big questions about their purpose in life, which ancient Greek thought answers richly.

Their wordsSome have access to training in skills to help them find employment on release, but far too few are helped to ask the big questions about their purpose in life, to which ancient Greek thought has rich answers.
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Teaching ancient ethics in prisons is the most fulfilling teaching she has done.

Their wordsI have found these sessions to be the most fulfilling experience of pedagogy in my entire working life.

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