What do Friends mean by equality?
Paul Honigmann, in the first of two articles, considers Quakers and equality
Last year there was a letter in the Friend about Ackworth School. It said that the school: ‘…also wanted to tell us that it continues to be Quaker in “outlook and governance”. I wonder what “Quaker” as an adjective means to Ackworth School? For me, “Quaker” involves a testimony to equality. Fee-paying schools in Britain, in their roles as pathways to privilege, cannot, in my view, be “Quaker”.’
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