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Education has for its object the formation of character.'
Herbert Spencer
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True humility...is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.'
Edmund Burke
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing.'
George Eliot
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Virtue is about the difficult and the good'
Thomas Aquinas
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Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each year, Oxford and other world-class universities produce leaders and thinkers who go on to have significant influence and impact around the world. The Oxford Character Project seeks to help talented students develop key virtues of character which will prepare them to be the wise thinkers and good leaders the world so desperately needs.
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OCP article published in the International Journal of Ethics Education
Edward Brooks, Jonathan Brant, Michael Lamb, 4th September 2019
'How can universities cultivate leaders of character? Insights from a leadership and character development program at the University of Oxford'.
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The Ethics of Algorithms
2:00pm-3:00pm, Monday 18th November 2019
Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
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An experimental workshop in partnership Wake Forest’s Program for Leadership and Character, Georgetown’s Ethics Lab, and the Oxford Character Project.
