Quakers sustained non-corporal pedagogy for 350 years, longer than any Christian tradition

Evidence

The Quaker commitment to non-corporal pedagogy is — and this is one of the most operationally significant facts in the entire history of Christian pedagogical practice — the longest-running sustained tradition-wide commitment to substantively non-corporal pedagogy in any major Christian tradition. Three and a half centuries. — , The Rod and the Child, 3028

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the earlier episodes’ coverage of Lutheran-Reformed, Catholic Counter-Reformation, and Anglican corporal severity (Episodes 38-39). — connects to: Non-corporal pedagogy is a four-thousand-year-old recovery, not modern import — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2272; Quakers hold the longest continuous tradition-wide non-corporal teaching record — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 12564; Quaker non-corporal practice outlasts Salesian, Mussar, and children’s-theology reform movements combined — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3056 (+1 more)

Broader Connections