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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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True humility...is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.'
Edmund Burke
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Education has for its object the formation of character.'
Herbert Spencer
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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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What is Trust and How Can Leaders Build it?
Christian Nattiel, 2nd March 2018
Reflections on lecture given by Prof Tom Simpson, hosted by the Oxford Character Project and the Engaging the Humanities programme at the Saïd Business School.
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Reading a monochrome with Ian Kiaer
12:15pm-1:15pm, Wednesday 16th May 2018
Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP
Free but please register
Using examples from his recent exhibition, Ian Kiaer, thinks through how we might understand questions of reading and experience when confronting an artwork.
