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Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers.. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends.
The conference is occasionally enlarged to include Quakers involved in other aspects of education. In 1988 FAHE co-hosted the International Congress on Quaker Education [4] [5] with the Friends Council on Education. In 2019 the conference was held at FAHE member institutions Swarthmore College and Pendle Hill in suburban Philadelphia.
Friends General Conference (FGC) is an association of Quakers in the United States and Canada made up of 16 yearly meetings and 12 autonomous monthly meetings. [1] " Monthly meetings" are what Quakers call congregations; "yearly meetings" are organizations of monthly meetings within a geographic region.
Louisiana Tech University hosted a ribbon cutting Monday for the Louisiana Tech Research Institute in Bossier City. "I'm passionate about this," said Leslie K. Guice, president of Louisiana Tech ...
Howard Haines Brinton (1884–1973) was an author, professor and director whose work influenced the Religious Society of Friends movement for much of the 20th century. His books ranged from Quaker journal anthologies to philosophical and historical dissertations on the faith, establishing him as a prominent commentator on the Society of Friends.
In 2019, the FCNL Education Fund assumed management and governance of the William Penn House. In 2020, it was renamed the Friends Place on Capitol Hill. In renaming it, the board was mindful that William Penn enslaved people. The building, finished in 1917, was purchased by the Friends Meeting in Washington in 1966 to advance Quaker efforts on ...
They recruited several Yankton children, including Zitkala-Ša, taking them to be educated at the White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute, a Quaker missionary boarding school in Wabash, Indiana. [5] This training school was founded by Josiah White for the education of "poor children, white, colored, and Indian" to help them advance in society. [6]
A Virtuous Education of Youth: William Penn and the Founding of Philadelphia's Schools (1997). Kashatus, William C. Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution (1990). Kashatus, William C. Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and the Civil War: "A Trial of Faith and Principle" (2010).