Quakers hold the longest continuous tradition-wide non-corporal teaching record
Evidence
For the substantive comparative-historical claim that the Quaker tradition’s 350-year operational record provides the longest sustained continuous tradition-wide non-corporal pedagogical commitment in any major Christian tradition, see — drawing the broader comparative pattern — Margaret Hope Bacon, The Quiet Rebels (above); and the broader cross-tradition synthesis in Marcia Bunge, ed., Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) — , The Rod and the Child, 12564
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the anti-rod/abolitionist thread familiar from abolitionist Quaker histories. — connects to: Quakers sustained non-corporal pedagogy for 350 years, longer than any Christian tradition — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3028; Quaker non-corporal practice outlasts Salesian, Mussar, and children’s-theology reform movements combined — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3056