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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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Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Virtue is about the difficult and the good'
Thomas Aquinas
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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"Just Business" Kick Off Workshop
2:00pm-4:00pm, Friday 13th March 2020
Park End St, Oxford OX1 1HP
n/a
A workshop focusing on the intersection between who we are, the institutions we work in and how we can grow as agents of change who further human goods in and through our work.
