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[quote=Anonymous]Especially at expensive private schools.

Hard to preach simplicity and equality when students turn up wearing expensive clothes and are equipped with the latest Apple products and jet off on fancy vacations.

There's much about Quakerism and Quaker education I admire but as a product of the Quaker schools there's always an element of hypocrisy that most just ignore, for better or for worse. In a way schools like the Cathedral schools or Holton/Landon are more honest.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quaker schools share some core themes or values, but they don't share the same pedagogy. They also tend to reflect the communities where they are situated.

Since there are very few practicing Quakers, most or all are populated by non-Quakers who (in theory) find elements of Quaker values attractive. Equality, simplicity, etc. are attractive to many people.[/quote]

Finding Quaker values attractive in theory doesn't guarantee that those values will be practiced.   [/quote][/quote]

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