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Quaker Culture: The Right Track

Author(s):
N. Jean Toomer
Issue:
On Relevance (March 2021)
Department:
Quaker Culture

Religious education, it seems to me, is on the wrong track if it assumes that religion is something that must be drilled into people. It is on the right track if it recognizes that the source of religion is within us as a native endowment, and that the function of education is to call this endowment forth, supply it with the nourishment it needs in order to grow, and guide it in ways that promote maturing.

inward light Quaker education

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