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Born in Toronto, Higgins attended St. Thomas Aquinas School for his primary education, and received his secondary education from the Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute, where Higgins is now on the school's "Hall of Fame" Higgins earned his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in English and Philosophy from St. Francis Xavier University (1970), an MA in English from York University (1971), a Bachelor of Education (Theatre Arts specialization) from the University of Toronto (1973) and a PhD from York University (1979) with a thesis entitled Thomas Merton — the Silent-Speaking Poet: A Study of his Poetry.
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