Thursday 21 June 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi and the Media Scrum

Nina-Maria (FSN) "in the scrum" (top right), filming Aung San Suu Kyi outside the London School of Economics:


(Detail from a Warren Allott photo, The Telegraph, 21 June)

Aung San Suu Kyi studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, from 1964 to 1967. We almost overlapped, although I was at another college.

Oxford University video

In her speech she said that 'the most important thing for me about Oxford was not what I learnt there in terms of set texts and set books we had to read, but in terms of a respect for the best in human civilisation.'

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