Hope and imagination

Michael Goodwin, head of Sibford School, looks at what Quaker schools have to offer

According to Quaker faith & practice 23.85 ‘the two qualities which are most important to children of today are hope and imagination. Hope to believe they can change the world they live in and imagination to find ways to do so.’  The truth of this statement was brought dramatically home to me recently by two coinciding events. One was the horrific case of the young boys in Doncaster who brutally tortured two of their peers. And the other was a letter from the grandmother of a former pupil who had been involved in a tragic accident in which two people died.

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