Editorial

In this issue our theme is Education. When we asked for articles on this theme, we did not realise that Australian Quakers had so much to say on the subject. It seems that as a group we like to learn, we like to teach, and we like to learn from those we teach. We...
Sailing into Country: Educator in Action

Sailing into Country: Educator in Action

David Carline, Queensland Regional Meeting I realised at last that I was an educator when I was 50. I got a job as a researcher working at the University of Queensland. We produced a little journal called The Aboriginal Child at School. What I thought everyone knew...
The Friends’ School, Hobart – Quakerism in Practice

The Friends’ School, Hobart – Quakerism in Practice

Nelson File, Principal, The Friends’ School, Hobart More than 300 years ago, William Penn fashioned a “Holy Experiment” in the newly founded colony of Pennsylvania (Penn’s Woods) based on his conviction in Quakerism. In the seventeenth-century world framed by...
A Quaker in Residence at The Friends School

A Quaker in Residence at The Friends School

Zélie Gross, South Wales Area Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting It was a real pleasure for me to spend time with students of different ages, from Kinders through to Clemes, in class settings as well in Gatherings – and finally out in the bush. In just four days...
Student-centred learning

Student-centred learning

Margaret Woodward, Western Australia Regional Meeting After doing teacher training, I had to put my plans to turn around the education system and solve all the problems of the world by the time I was twenty-five years old, on hold. I married – an unforgivable...