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Adam Smith's exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 5 June 1723. His father, a customs officer in Kirkcaldy, died before he was born. He studied at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. He returned to Kircaldy in 1746 and two years later he was asked to give a series of public lectures in Edinburgh, which established his reputation.
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Adam Smith was born, educated, taught and lived in Scotland most of his life. However, he travelled on horseback to Balliol College to find out if education in Oxford was really as bad as he had been told.— It was.”
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Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. From 1748 to 1751, he gave lectures on rhetoric and belles-lettres in Edinburgh. During this period, a close association developed between Smith and fellow Scottish philosopher David Hume that lasted until the latter's death in 1776 and contributed much to the development of Smith's ethical and economic theories. See ... Thematic Essay: British Political and Social Thought.
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There has been considerable scholarly debate about the nature of Adam Smith's religious views. Smith's father had a strong interest in Christianity[7] and belonged to the moderate wing of the Church of Scotland (the national church of Scotland since 1690). Smith may have gone to England with the intention of a career in the Church of England: this is controversial and depends on the status of the Snell Exhibition. At Oxford, Smith rejected Christianity and it is generally believed that he returned to Scotland as a Deist.[8]
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Yes, Smith’s ‘History of Astronomy’ was written partly when he was a student at Oxford (1740-46) and partly as a would-be tutor (1746-51), with a possible addendum on Newton’s work after 1773. It was ... the last of his works published - posthumously in 1795 (by his executors, Joseph Black and James Hutton).
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Smith’s view of competition was undoubtedly shaped by the way he saw the universities of his day, loaded with coddled, tenured professors whose pay had little to do with their service to their pupils or the public at large. While a student at Oxford in the 1740s, he observed the lassitude of his professors who "had given up altogether even the pretense of teaching."
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