
Adrian McLean
UK educator, former Executive Headteacher and MAT character-education leader, and Ambassador for Character (Jubilee Centre) who speaks and coaches on character, leadership and DEI.
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Oct 16, 2026
Keep It Real - Values, Virtues and the Cost of Holding the Line: The Late Show with Tim Smale
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Tim SmaleHOST
Our role models in society, are they that good? They're often letting us down, and at the same time, we've got social media kind of causing a very, very different relationship and a very different way of interacting, and we're being told by politicians now, "Keep politics out of the classroom."

Adrian McLeanGUEST
And so we don't have to have politics in the classroom to, to teach character.

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Uh, character sits in, in, well, the Aristotelian version of character that, that I follow and, and, and really work with says that character sits in, in four sort of main domains.

Adrian McLeanGUEST
So we have performance virtues, which are the things that w- where we're talking about perseverance, resilience, and like absolute...

Adrian McLeanGUEST
I can't see anybody that doesn't want to develop young people with those traits, right? So we want our young people to be resilient.
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Tim SmaleHOST
Kinda your experience, have you seen, have you seen AI influencing parental complaints?
“Blacks vs Whites” Football Match: Ban It or Address the Real Problem?
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Adrian McLeanGUEST
And then it's about sitting down and going, okay, let's look at the dynamics of this.

Adrian McLeanGUEST
And then that's where you've got to use your skill to get them to unpick and see the optics that they're not seeing.

Adrian McLeanGUEST
Because probably at that point, they're just seeing it from a friendship point of view.
