Fountains of ideas

David Lockyer writes about his experience of six weeks in residence as an Eva Koch Scholar at Woodbrooke

The most unexpected gift of spending six weeks, as an Eva Koch Scholar, at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham was the stimulation of the seemingly free-form conversations with the other Scholars. These, on occasions, ran on late into the night, sparking off ideas left and right, and sometimes drawing in anyone who happened to be nearby: guests, Friends in Residence, Woodbrooke tutors and attenders on other courses. No one was truly safe, not even the gardeners. Woodbrooke seems to be a place that creates fountains of ideas.

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