Early Life
Emerson was born in Ipswich Queensland, where his father, an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, was working at the nearby Amberley Air Force base. Emerson attended schools across Australia and overseas as his family moved with the RAAF. He graduated from high school in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. Emerson attended the University of Queensland where he enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts degree, completing studies in law, economics and journalism. He finished his degree in 1985 with majors in law and journalism, and completed an economics degree in 1987. While at university he was a regular contributor to the student newspaper Semper Floreat. He was editor of the newspaper in 1986. He also served as chairman of the Journalism Students Association in 1985.
Read more about this topic: Scott Emerson
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universal ... that error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
—Andy Warhol (c. 1928–1987)