As a Scott living in Edinburgh, it was a great pleasure listening to your lecture. It’s incredible that Andrew Carnegie started life as a poor weaver’s son in Dunfermline. Having lived nearby for a few years, we learnt a few interesting tales about his early life and how he was motivated to drag himself from poverty to greater things, which included his philanthropic deeds. The Scottish nation have in its DNA strong engineering, architectural, scientific, medical, literary, philosophic and artistic talents, forgotten, sometimes and taken for granted. I hope loads of Scottish people, especially the young, listen to your presentation and take inspiration from it, enough to take up the mantle and develop their inherent skills, to restore our flagging industries and culture in the face of being stifled by our political governments for long enough.
As a Scott living in Edinburgh, it was a great pleasure listening to your lecture. It’s incredible that Andrew Carnegie started life as a poor weaver’s son in Dunfermline. Having lived nearby for a few years, we learnt a few interesting tales about his early life and how he was motivated to drag himself from poverty to greater things, which included his philanthropic deeds. The Scottish nation have in its DNA strong engineering, architectural, scientific, medical, literary, philosophic and artistic talents, forgotten, sometimes and taken for granted. I hope loads of Scottish people, especially the young, listen to your presentation and take inspiration from it, enough to take up the mantle and develop their inherent skills, to restore our flagging industries and culture in the face of being stifled by our political governments for long enough.