We look at a child in five dimensions. None of them is acquired in a term; each is formed over years, in the habits of ordinary days.
Character is what holds when life asks more of a young person. How far a child will go, and how much they can bear, depends on it before anything else.
A mind of one’s own: from a love of reading to independent judgement, neither waiting for the model answer nor following the crowd.
To find work worth a lifetime, and to be equal to the place it brings. The greater the good fortune, the greater the duty.
Ability brings a young person into the room; the people around them keep a place for them there. Poise is learned, and a circle is built: the two go together.
This one tests two generations: the child learns to govern wealth, and the family builds the structure that will hold the child. In succession, people come before money.
At the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London, the Future Leaders Club convened a leadership forum bringing together young people from around the world and leaders from across industry. The evening invited them to consider the wider world, the responsibilities of leadership and the place they might make for themselves within it.