by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
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...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
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...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
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...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
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...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
Pamela Leach, Tasmania Regional Meeting As a student, Friends invited me into making regular visits to detention centres. In truth, I had never given those hidden away from society more than a moment’s thought until then. But of course it was a perfect way to live out...
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