Universities as Secular Temples: How Power Was Packaged as Prestige | Toronto Talks Clips

“It held power, Ash, because it was power.”

For centuries, universities weren’t just schools—they were society’s secular temples. Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne: institutions that conferred not only knowledge, but legitimacy, belonging, and authority.

In this clip, Sophie unpacks how universities became the cultural gatekeepers of status—and why that model is now under fire.

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