This page is currently a placeholder for a more complete (and more communally discerned) narrative and set of links.  In brief, Quakers have long been proponents of education as a way toward enlightenment and Light, were early proponents of women's education, and supported education of African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries.  In general, Quakers find no incompatibility between science and religion:  both are ways to illuminate Truth.
    At Gunpowder, most of the contemporary Quaker views of education are represented, and there is no singular sense of the meeting.  These views, in brief, include:  a) emphatic support of public education as a universally accessible route to an informed and enlightened citizenry, egalitarianism, and social justice; b) support for independent schools (e.g. Friends Schools) that are rooted in "Quaker values"; c) support for home schooling as a loving and personalized way to deliver the best education to some children; d) some antipathy toward the elitism, expense, and inevitable (even if unintended) exclusivity of private schools (including some Friends schools); e) concerns about some manners of home schooling that lead to withdrawal from the world.  Many Gunpowder Friends hold several (sometimes all) of these views in a healthy cognitive dissonance.  Gunpowder's members and attenders include many lifelong educators of all levels and kinds:  teachers and administrators in public and private schools at the elementary, middle, secondary, community college, and university levels.
 

  Some Quaker Education Sites:

(These schools and programs are not explicitly endorsed by Gunpowder Meeting, but are of interest to individual members who have children in the schools, who teach or lead in the schools, and/or serve in advisory capacities on boards.)

    Earlham School of Religion (ESR) http://esr.earlham.edu/
    Harford Friends School http://www.harfordfriends.org/index.html
    Friends School of Baltimore  http://www.friendsbalt.org/
    Sandy Spring Friends School  http://www.ssfs.org/
    Plowshares http://www.plowsharesproject.org/index.php Peace Studies at each of its church-related colleges, Earlham, Goshen, and Manchester colleges have joined together as the Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative