"We prepare students to engage in the world that is and to help bring about a world that ought to be."
Peace Week 2011 | Feb. 7-11
A panel discussion--Quaker Education: Past, Present, and Future--will be held on February 10 at 7 p.m. in the Meetinghouse. Moderated by Principal Bo Lauder, the panel will feature three of the leading experts on Quaker Education.
Peace Week 2011: "Educating for Peace: Friends Seminary and 225 Years of Quaker Education"
Moderated by Principal Bo Lauder, a panel discussion about Quaker Education, Past, Present and Future will feature panelists:
Steve Emerson, President, Haverford College
Bruce Stewart, Head of School Emeritus, Sidwell Friends School
Irene McHenry, Executive Director, Friends Council on Education
Reception at 6:15 | Panel Discussion 7:00
Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse
This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP: aeisner@friendsseminary.org or 212.979.5030, ext. 195
As Peace Week enters its seventh year and Friends Seminary celebrates its 225th anniversary, violence in its multiple forms continues to plague our country and the world. Ignorance exacerbates the conflicts that cause this violence. As a Quaker school, it is crucial to our mission to challenge such ignorance and explore ways to strive for peace in our work and relationships. Proponents of peace such as Dorothy Day, Gandhi, and Adam Curle all stress the revolutionary power of love in bringing about justice and peace. The first steps to ending violence and constructing a more peaceful and just world involve learning how to love as well as understanding and appreciating a variety of cultures and their inherent similarities and differences. Friends Seminary teaches these lessons on multiple levels every day, but it is important to frame and contextualize these lessons so as to make them meaningful and palpable to our students, thereby nurturing change in knowledge, skills, and attitudes. By reflecting on the school's past and present and the transformative power of education, we consciously work towards a more just and peaceful future and bringing about "the world that ought to be."
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Moderated by Principal Bo Lauder, a panel discussion about Quaker Education, Past, Present and Future will feature panelists:
Steve Emerson, President, Haverford College
Bruce Stewart, Head of School Emeritus, Sidwell Friends School
Irene McHenry, Executive Director, Friends Council on Education
Reception at 6:15 | Panel Discussion 7:00
Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse
This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP: aeisner@friendsseminary.org or 212.979.5030, ext. 195
As Peace Week enters its seventh year and Friends Seminary celebrates its 225th anniversary, violence in its multiple forms continues to plague our country and the world. Ignorance exacerbates the conflicts that cause this violence. As a Quaker school, it is crucial to our mission to challenge such ignorance and explore ways to strive for peace in our work and relationships. Proponents of peace such as Dorothy Day, Gandhi, and Adam Curle all stress the revolutionary power of love in bringing about justice and peace. The first steps to ending violence and constructing a more peaceful and just world involve learning how to love as well as understanding and appreciating a variety of cultures and their inherent similarities and differences. Friends Seminary teaches these lessons on multiple levels every day, but it is important to frame and contextualize these lessons so as to make them meaningful and palpable to our students, thereby nurturing change in knowledge, skills, and attitudes. By reflecting on the school's past and present and the transformative power of education, we consciously work towards a more just and peaceful future and bringing about "the world that ought to be."
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Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
