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Published · transcript-backedSheilagh Ogilvie: belief
2 Apr 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions
“I think that’s an important part of one’s education — both having colleagues who are eccentric and also teaching the next generation that it’s okay to be weird, and I think England’s still like that.”
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- Sheilagh Ogilvie
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- 2 Apr 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Do you think English society tolerates its own eccentrics well? I actually do think it does. I think, especially after 30 years in Cambridge, and now 5 years in Oxford, some of my colleagues are even more eccentric than I am, and that’s fine. Not only do their colleagues like it, but the students really like it. The students totally get on with having supervisions in Cambridge, tutorials in Oxford, with people who are slightly odd. I think that’s an important part of one’s education — both having colleagues who are eccentric and also teaching the next generation that it’s okay to be weird, and I think England’s still like that. Let’s say an 18-year-old, highly intelligent young woman comes to you. She’s moving to England; she might want to be a professor. What advice do you give to her? From America, let’s say.…
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