This is an example of a theorist who believes in educating our youth in character education to augment the public school experience.

1. Parker Palmer
The Active Life: A Spirituality of
Work, Creativity, and Caring

2. Today's professionals have an ethical obligation to help transform the toxic
settings in which their work is done." -Palmer J. Parker
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Qualities of Admiration for
Dr. Parker J. Palmer
• A spiritual perspective on education and
teaching
• Celebration of the deep meaning of vocation and
social action
• Psychological insights into identity, wholeness
and transformation
• Meditations on the vitalities of both individuality
and community

3. Best Quote of Dr. Palmer J. Parker
"In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not
only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small
harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the
outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully
for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch
that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch
that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act
of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again”
(Palmer, 1999).

4. References
Good Reads, Inc. (1999). Retrieved December 20, 2011 from
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/55813.Parker_J_Palmer
National Staff Development Council (2008). Retrieved December 20, 2011 from
http://www.scsk12.org/scs/departments/ProfessionalDevelopment/pdfs/Lead-
with-Soul.pdf
Spirituality and Practice Resources for Spiritual Journeys (2011). Retrieved
December 20, 2011 from
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/teachers/teachers.php?id=223