Douglas H. Heath

"If Quaker Schools are to have a right to existence they must have a peculiar mission." Heath's knowledgeable reflections on this statement by Howard Brinton.

The author examines the lives of exemplary men and women who have faced and overcome various forms of potentially debilitating adversity in mature ways.

Friends schools exist to empower students, faculty, and staff to live more fully in the Truth, to educate for goodness, and to bring each person to the teacher within.

Youth and society need the insights and vision of Quakerism and similar traditions in order to witness forcefully and creatively about how to live as a full human being.