Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics
Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues
Editor, Journal of Moral Education
School of Education
University of Birmingham
I sometimes wonder, in the age of online and offline echochambers and Facebook friendship bubbles, whether we have lost the ancient idea of a critical friend. I am as guilty here as anyone. I mercilessly unfriend people on Facebook whose views I find abhorrent (or even mildly disturbing), rather than engaging with them critically. There Read more