Guest Speaker To Discuss Quaker Education At Westfield Friends School

CINNAMINSON, NJ — Ingrid Lakey will address the value and power of teaching the Quaker tenets of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship of our environment during a special event at Westfield Friends School next month.

Lakey will speak at the Westfield Monthly Meeting House located near the school at 2201 Riverton Road, Cinnaminson on Thursday, March 16, 7 p.m.

The event will be hosted by the Westfield Friends School’s Quaker Life Committee and Parent Council.
“Historically, Quakers have been forerunners in the field of education,” the school said in a release issued on Friday. “Based on their belief that there is “that of God” in all people, Friends have established schools that provide an academically rigorous and a spiritually grounded education for children that has evolved and transformed lives over the past 300 years.”

Lakey is deeply committed to Quaker education. She graduated from Friends Select School in Philadelphia in 1989. She is the parent of a second grader at Friends Select School and is on its Quaker Life Committee of the Board of Trustees.

Some of the topics she will discuss include:

• What is it that differentiates a Quaker education from other private or public schools?
• What is Quakerism’s broad and deep foundation on which your child will grow?
• What is the value and power of a Quaker education in today’s world?

Lakey is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. She graduated from Temple University in 1994 with a B.A. in Communications.

She has been a trainer and a facilitator for 22 years and spent 15 years in the field of public radio working for NPR, local stations and the national program “Justice Talking.”

She is also a founder and board member of Earth Quaker Action Team, an organization working to build a just and sustainable economy through nonviolent direct action.

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