education

‘Both … and …’: Parenting for Adulthood

I have been parenting for 12 years, and before I became a parent I taught for 18 years. Our children,… Susan Tannehill

Raising Quaker Youth

It would seem that writing about raising Quaker youth would be an easy undertaking, especially as my husband Rick and… Georgianne Jackofsky

The Meeting School after 50 Years

What if we could have the kind of schools that prepared youngsters for the kind of world we should have,… Mary DesRosiers

Living Truth at The Woolman Semester

In late 2003 I was at a peak of emotional and spiritual turmoil. I was teaching middle and high school… Elizabeth De Sa

What Are Schools For?

Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of… Thomas B. Farquhar

Quaker Education: Thoughts on Our Words, Our Silence, and a Very Cool Milk Jug Raft

G. K. Chesterton once said that most educational debates more or less dead-end at "Let us not decide what is… Kat Griffith

Follow the Child

I am an introspective kind of Friend who considers every decision carefully. It takes me days to mull over a… Ann Jerome Croce

Finding Our Place as Young Adult Friends

Sometimes I feel as though I lived during the period of Quietism in Quaker history. I attended what may be… Adam Waxman

Julien Davies Cornell: Gentle Quaker, Determined Litigator

In December 1994, the New York Times published an obituary titled "Julien Cornell, 83, The Defense Lawyer in Ezra Pound… Charles F. Howlett

En mi barrio: A young Friend’s Neighborhood

Like the prince in an elaborate ballet he spins deftly and, with a practiced thrust, knocks his opponent’s épée to… Caitlin Archer-Helke

Nancy Nye

Help a child wrestle with a complex idea, or advocate for a child’s right to education, an adequate diet, and… Kara Newell

Changing the Rules of Scrabble

Cultural pressure seems to emphasize competitive achievement through conflict and winning. We would like to share how rule changes in… Alica and Bob Mabbs
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