Let Your Lives Speak

Sandy Spring Friends School

Introduction to Quakerism

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION What do you have in common with these folks?

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Quaker Quiz Who are the Quakers? Trivia George Fox and Margaret Fell - 1650s in England

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION What Quaker’s image was on the US dollar?

On the UK 5 pound note?

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is on the US dollar coin.

Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1780-1845) is on the UK five-pound note. FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION What product was NOT developed by Quakers? What product was NOT developed by Quakers? What Quakers artist designed a greeting card that says,

“Things getting worse – send chocolate!”

A. – Fritz Eichenberg B. – Signe Wilkinson

C. – Sandra Boynton D. – Edward Hicks

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION A. – Fritz Eichenberg B. – Signe Wilkinson

C. – Sandra Boynton D. – Edward Hicks

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION A. – Lloyd’s of London B. – Barclays Bank C. – Cadbury Chocolates

F – Sony

E. – Quaker Oats D. – Carnation Milk Company What of the following businesses was NOT Quaker in origin? A. – Lloyd’s of London B. – Barclays Bank C. – Cadbury Chocolates

F – Sony

E. – Quaker Oats D. – Carnation Milk Company What of the following businesses was NOT Quaker in origin? What Quaker wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment?

A. – Alice Paul B. – Susan B. Anthony

C. - Angelina Grimke D. – Lucretia Mott

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION What Quaker wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Alice Paul – 1885 – 1977 Amendment?

• Quaker women learned leadership skills.

• 19th Amendment giving women* suffrage – ratified in 1920.

• Proposed Equal Rights Amendment

– still not ratified as part of US Constitution !!!

* African-American women continued to be dis-enfranchised until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Other Quaker Women Leaders

The Grimke Sisters 1790s to 1870s

Lucretia Mott, Abolitionist (1793 – 1880)

Toni Graves Williamson Maria Mitchel, Astronomer & Deborra Sines Pancoe (1818 – 1889) FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Which famous Quaker organized the March on Washington in August of 1963?

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Bayard Rustin 1912- 1987

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Other Friends of African Descent

Paul Cuffee

Ujima Friends Peace Center

Sarah Mapps Douglas

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION A quick spin thru the history Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

George Fox and Margaret Fell - 1650s in England

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Essential belief Inner Light

• The Light is in all. • Direct, personal experience of the Spirit/ • Everyone has access. • Divine inspiration can speak to and through anyone at any time. FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION 9 Core Quaker Beliefs Arthur Larrabee 9 Core Quaker Beliefs

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION •. . .Quaker education does not seek to inculcate a set of beliefs or doctrines. •It seeks to nurture a particular sort of personhood. •What sort of personhood is this? A person who has “eyes for invisibles.” Toward a Clearer View of Quaker Education by Samuel Caldwell

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Testimonies

(and Queries)

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Integrity Community

Peace Equality

Stewardship Simplicity

That of God in all.

Friends Beliefs and Testimonies. What are we doing in worship? What are we doing in worship?

Discernment about vocal oAcclimate children to silence o and reflection as a means ministry / personal sharing. toward personal growth. oDevelop empathy for the oImprove / increase / deepen ideas and feelings of others. listening skills - both inward and outward. oTo build or grow a life of the spirit - “Eyes for Invisibles” - oUnderstanding of individual and community Sam Caldwell

Friends Council on Education What are we doing in Meeting for Worship with Attention for Business?

Friends Council on Education “Be willing to wait in the space of ‘human not knowing’ for spiritual guidance.” - Arthur Larrabee Photo credit: Sandy Spring Friends School

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Quaker process: aspirations & reality

• Builds Community • Creative exploration of solutions • Encourages openness to others • Empowering: many voices heard • Encourages listening across differences

• Easily open to pitfalls, misuse, or misperceptions • Can be time-consuming

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION Decision making in Quaker schools

A Friends school is not a Quaker Meeting.

Hybrid model –Sense of the meeting decision making –Hierarchical decision making –Clarity about who will decide –Participation to the extent possible Closing Reflection on Quaker Education

“We can affirm that the primary spiritual purpose of a Quaker school is to help prepare us to be open to the sacred, to learn how to recognize the sacred when people encounter it, and discover their most appropriate responses to it.” • Paul Lacey, Growing into Goodness

FRIENDS C OUNC IL ON EDUC ATION

A few celebrity Quakers. . . A few musical Quakers. . .

What principles unite Quaker schools all over the world?