Master of New College of Humanities speaks at Exeter School

Exeter School was pleased to welcome Professor A C Grayling, Master of New College of Humanities, last week when he delivered a lecture on the value of studying the humanities.

Professor Grayling spoke to over 200 pupils aged 16-18 from Exeter School, The Maynard, Wellington School and Exeter College along with their teachers on Friday 28 March.

Professor A C Grayling spoke for 90 minutes on the value of studying the humanities in which he invited pupils to consider 'What is Knowledge'.  He then took questions from pupils in Exeter School's newly extended Music School Hall.

Manoj Chitnavis, Higher Education Coordinator of Exeter School, said:  "We were delighted to welcome someone as eminent as Professor Grayling to the school. It was a fantastic opportunity for pupils to deepen their understanding of the value of the humanities." 

Professor A C Grayling, said: "I always look forward to sharing and exchanging ideas with the students. Exeter School is one of a number schools my academic colleagues from NCH and I are planning to visit over the next two weeks and I am looking forward to hearing the thoughts of students and staff alike." 

Professor A C Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.

He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are "The Good Book", "Ideas That Matter", "Liberty in the Age of Terror" and "To Set Prometheus Free". For several years he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the Times.

He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New Statesman, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. He is also Chair of the Man Booker prize.