Learning means changing behavior

“Friends’ peace testimony challenges us all to be peace educators. We may not all be teachers, but we are all communicators, and we all need to be learners. Peace education should be seen as an integral part of our peace testimony. But it is essentially something one does, and not something one talks about…. Learning, to be educated, means changing one’s behavior, and peace education therefore aims at changing our own individual behavior. We communicate our values by the manner of our lives….”

— Eva I Pinthus, 1982
Quaker theology lecturer and university chaplain

Today’s Invitation

Communicate your values by the manner of your life.

This Week’s Query

When has a teacher helped you notice the Light within yourself?

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  • Eva I. Pinthus (1925-2020) was a theology teacher and lecturer whose specialty was providing pastoral care to university students. Born Jewish in Berlin, Pinthus managed to flee to Britain on a Kindertransport train. She later became a Quaker and this led her to join the Quakers’ Friends Relief Service, for whom she travelled to Germany in 1950 to help set up a project to build a peace center near Bückeburg under the auspices of the German Fellowship of Reconciliation.

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