The Quaker approach to education

“The attitude of the Society of Friends towards education has been determined by their belief in the Inner Light. Holding as they do that there is something of the divine in every [person], they have regarded education (in the broadest sense) as the developing of the Divine Seed, or the fanning into a flame of that Divine Spark . . . To Friends, therefore, education is an intensely religious thing; it means the training and development of the spiritual life, the liberating of the Divine that is within us.”

— Gerald K. Hibbert, 1930
Warden of the Swarthmore Settlement in Leeds, UK

Today’s Invitation

Train and develop your spiritual life in order to liberate the Divine that is within you.

This Week’s Query

What is a spiritual lesson that has shaped your life? How did you learn it?

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  • Gerald K. Hibbert

    Gerald K. Hibbert was a Quaker thinker and first warden of the Swarthmore adult educational settlement in Leeds, UK.  After the WWI Hibbert moved on to become headmaster of the Quakers’ School at Ackworth near Pontefract in West Yorkshire, and took up a more prominent role in Quakerism nationally.

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