A lifelong Quaker educator looks at what it has been like for Quakers to do education over nearly 350 years, looking at how our predecessors in the community of faith have discerned their calling to educate their own and others' children in the daily challenges of their times and places. In such discernment, principles and practices derived from them get enunciated which at least informally deserve the name "philosophies." The author is interested in the continuities and discontinuities, in what it has been like for Friends, under obedience to God's leadings as they understood them, to be educators.

Balanced examination of Quaker educational theory and practice. Lacey has taught at Earlham since 1960 and seems to get at the good stuff in Quaker pedagogy and ethics while holding on to a realistic view of students, teachers, and institutions. ( )