How can a little school in Iowa manifest Quaker values in its faculty and student body?
What part did this school play in World War II and Jewish refugees?
How can beginning each day in silence and meditation change a students’ possibilities?
You are about to fall into an adventure listening to Sam Taylor. He is the Dean of Academics at a small Quaker school in Iowa that’s imbued with not only the precepts but also the spirit of these passionately humanitarian people. You’re going to hear how the school manifests Quaker doctrines in the daily running of its school – and about how its adjoining farm, doubles as food source and classroom for the boarding students and staff.
Let’s open our minds to Sam’s description of the power of positivity and how the effects of the doctrines of a people committed to community have on its population in this small but remarkable school in Iowa.
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Music: Alon Ohana, The Rainbow Train
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