Written SeijtsPublished by: The Globe and Mail
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Extracted Content: Whether we teach finance, literature or engineering, educators have the obligation to help students become citizens of good character. This is not a revolutionary or even modern idea, for thinkers as far back as Aristotle espoused the value of character development. In more recent times, Winston Churchill, after witnessing the horrific and inhumane deployment of science and technology during the Second World War, emphatically declared, “The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities.” As we become more deeply immersed in our age of sweeping disruption, we need to ask: How we can change the way we educate individuals today to prepare them to make a positive difference to society tomorrow?