Dr. Thomas P. Sculco | The Value of a Classical Education for STEM | Paideia Arete Award Gala

At the Paideia Institute's 2024 Arete Award Gala, Dr. Thomas P. Sculco, Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus at the Hospital for Special Surgery, reflects on how his undergraduate studies in Classics have enriched his over 40-year career in medicine, and how performing a complex surgery is not so different from translating a passage of Cicero.
Dr. Sculco and Dame Mary Beard are the 2024 recipients of the Arete Award, established in 2018 by the Paideia Institute and the Arete Foundation to recognize individuals who have had an outstanding impact on the field of Classics. We give the award to two honorees annually: a distinguished academic classicist, and a passionate supporter of the Classics who has gone on to success in other fields.
The Paideia Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the study of the classical humanities. Since 2010, we have pursued that mission through travel programs, outreach to expand access to the classics, publications, curriculum development and digital language learning. Each year we teach the classics to more than 2,000 students of every age group, making us one of the largest organizations in our mission area.
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