Change Community Palmer

CHANGE COMMUNITY, CONFLICT, AND WAYS OF KNOWING WAYS TO DEEPEN OUR EDUCATIONAL AGENDA by Parker J. Palmer (SEP./OCT.) Twelve years ago, my own yearning for community in education led me out of the mainstream of higher education to a small place called Pendle Hill, a 55-year-old Quaker living/learning community near Philadelphia. It is a place where everyone–from teachers to cooks to administrators–receives the same base salary as a witness to community. At Pendle Hill, rigorous study of philosophy, nonviolent social change, and other subjects, goes right alongside washing the dishes each day, making decisions by consensus, and taking care of each other, as well as reaching out to the world.

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