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Most Friends schools are similar in their mission however: to provide an academically sound education while also instilling values of community, spirituality, responsibility and stewardship in their students. [1] Some institutions founded by Friends were never formally "Quaker schools".
Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, independent, college preparatory school serving students from nursery school through the twelfth grade, located in Locust Valley, New York, United States. The school was founded in 1876 by 78-year-old Gideon Frost for "The children of Friends and those similarly sentimented."
Barclays Bank, finance [1] [2] [3] Bethlehem Steel, founded by Quaker entrepreneur Joseph Wharton; Bewley's, Irish hot beverage company founded by Samuel and Charles Bewley. The Bewleys were one of Ireland's most well known Quaker families.
This school was likely kept in his own home near Fork Landing and was co-educational from the time of its founding. [5] [6] Westfield Friends School has been operated under the care of the Westfield Friends Meeting for all of its history, making it the oldest Quaker school in the United States run by a meeting (church congregation). [6]
Friends' Central School was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia at 4th Street and Cherry Street, serving as an upper school for the Quaker primary schools with grades 7 through 12. In 1857, the school moved to 15th and Race Street, remaining at this location until 1925, when it moved to its current campus on City Avenue, formerly the Wistar Morris ...
Leighton Park School is a co-educational private school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading in South East England. The school's ethos is closely tied to the Quaker values, having been founded as a Quaker School in 1890. The school's ethos is described as achievement with values, character and community.
The school had about 400 students in 1995 [7] and about 107 teachers in 2000. [6] The school was once owned by the Quakers' New York Quarterly Meeting, [6] but the school and the Quaker meeting ended their affiliation in 2010. [3] [8] Few of the school's modern-day students are Quaker, although the school culture and curriculum incorporate ...
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1