Quaker Education: What Is It?
by David Gansz(15 pages of text)
David Gansz was raised in Philadelphia, where he attended the William Penn Charter School and graduated from Westtown Friends Boarding School, and Greensboro, North Carolina, where his father was a Professor of Music at Guilford College. Further educated at Oxford and Canterbury Universities, Bard College and the University of Michigan, he holds degrees in Theology, Art History, Poetry, and Library & Information Science. Presently Director of the Library at Wilmington College in Ohio, he is the former Director of the Library at Naropa University, a Buddhist institution. Spanning forty years of direct participation in Friends education, he has attended silent Quaker meetings while living in Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Boulder, Yellow Springs, the Hudson River Valley of New York, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Educating for Peace and Social Justice (2002), author of Millennial Scriptions (2000), publisher and editor of Ashen Meal (1995-1999), and a contributing editor of Notus: New Writing (1986-1993). |
