A new generation
of wise thinkers
and good leaders

  • Virtue is about the difficult and the good'

    Thomas Aquinas

  • True humility...is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.'

    Edmund Burke

  • Education has for its object the formation of character.'

    Herbert Spencer

  • Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education'

    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing.'

    George Eliot

The Oxford Character Project is an interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Oxford, dedicated to the cultivation of character and responsible leadership.

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