How to pronounce “quaker” in English

with that? Well, we don't have a control group unless you look at kids who are incredibly impoverished or let's sayQuakers who don't believe in technology.And with both those groups, there's a hundred other important differences. So, you can't just say, "Oh, look, I'm comparing to this kid who grew up

Accessible to women, yes.a quaker. And she was a member of the Labor Party, and she invited me along to meetings. And years later, she contacted me when I was

Gravity does the work.Two Quakers from Palo Alto, Eric and Kaki, went in for two years to teach biointensive.

So I really did want that name.I sold it to Quaker."Quaker," "Maker--" kind of was a good play there.

But during the Great Depression, a lot of these big hotels were vacant.And some of the Quaker teachers who were playing Monopoly were staying in these now-vacant hotels.So they incorporate those into the game.

sure all of these women one by one and eventually settled upon one of them uh called Dorothy Mo who was the daughterof a Quaker from Devon in Southwest England and she was an expert or doing aPhD on the mechanics of muscles these kind of muscles in your arm and he rather lamely said as I do eggs and you

And a guy named Henry Greenland opens a tavern there at the arrow so people going back and forth on that trail can stop and get a beer and change their horses or spend the night.And then the Quakers led by William Penn, theyíre trying to get as far away from New York and Philadelphia is possible.So they also settle there, and they build a Quaker meeting house.

And I was like, you know what?I don't want to work at Quaker Oats.And I walked out, and I decided at that point that I would--

And I think the classic on this one is if you go and look at a company that's now part of Pepsi, but before that it was Quaker Oats.Bill Smithburg was the CEO of Quaker Oats.And he actually showed both extremes, if you will.

And one group that really embraces it are the Quakers of Atlantic City.This is a picture of a Quaker Monopoly night, which was very common at the time.And they make the board like Atlantic City, because that's where they live.

experience counselor -- unbiased, non-self-serving, not an outside McKenzie or BCG or Bain but an insider. Take a look at the next one.This breaks my heart coming from Quaker Philadelphia, where consensus is king or queen, she found that at the fast movers, they were ready totake action without 100 percent consensus being formed around the decision yet to be made. Partial consensus.

for in freeing the enslaved.When you think about the Quakers who risked their families, their lives, their livelihoods to help people go North, or the Mexicans,the Southern Underground Railroad into Mexico because Mexico abolished slavery before the US did and before Texas wanted to.

They also originality in Monopoly, in The Landlord's Game, there's a lot more auctioning with the game.So the noise of that bothers the Quakers.Silence is a tenet of their faith.

The adaptation. The people who survived concentration camps, to go to the other extreme, tended to havefirm but quiet faith like Quakers.But in general, I think it may just depend on one's openness as an individual.

People would consider that to be taboo, as you mentioned in the documentary.So seeing that the documentary really put into perspective how his Quaker upbringing really helped him come to terms with some of the decisionshe's made, especially when it came to his personal life as well.

that that rule-breaking sometimes becomes absorbed into the culture as something mainstream.Bayard's resistance was based on nonviolence and on his Quaker upbringing.And the whole idea about nonviolence-- it's really based on love.

but I basically-- any fancy corporation that came to campus to recruit, I was on their schedule.And I remember I was in an interview with Quaker Oats, and they were like, why do you want to work at Quaker Oats?And I started to be like-- I don't know what I said, but the part where I gained consciousness of what I was saying, was I

So they incorporate those into the game.So one of players who plays the Atlantic City Quaker version of the game is Charles Todd.And this is a copy of the Charles Todd board.

So this is Dan Layman's Finance Game.Dan Layman had also played the game as a Quaker game.You can see that it's very similar with Community Chest, a lot of the properties.

So they also settle there, and they build a Quaker meeting house.So you have this tavern and you have the Quaker meeting house.And the tavern became Princeton University and the Quaker meeting house that land became the Institute for Advanced Study.

So you have this tavern and you have the Quaker meeting house.And the tavern became Princeton University and the Quaker meeting house that land became the Institute for Advanced Study.It only changed hands twice, from the Penn family to the Olden family to the Institute.

There were Philly games.And one group that really embraces it are the Quakers of Atlantic City.This is a picture of a Quaker Monopoly night, which was very common at the time.

So they need tokens.Now, when the Quakers were playing and early folk players, they used earrings, buttons, whatever was around.But Parker Brothers calls on Daoust Manufacturing, which was this Chicago-based company that made Crackerjack prizes.

This is often something I think about as well.Given the documentary and seeing where Bayard Rustin comes from as far as his Quaker upbringing, I think that gives us a lot of contextinto how he went about engaging in relationships, which is very different.

And I started to be like-- I don't know what I said, but the part where I gained consciousness of what I was saying, was Iwas like, and I really like Quaker Oats Captain Crunch, but only with crunch berries.I don't really like it when it doesn't have the crunch berries.

Things have changed. And giving is about generosity, and also about gravity.So I spotted this not long ago on the wall of my daughter's hippie Quaker school in Brooklyn.

They pick you. And I think a lot of times people are confused about that.For example, the best is when we were doing the Quaker Oats acquisition, when the CEO walked into my office and said,

Yeah. It's a little bit more like a Quaker meeting or something.

I mean, we turned the space between Pop Tarts and Quaker Oats into "Showtime at the Apollo." And after what seemed like hours of loosening our appendages

And then the Quakers led by William Penn, theyíre trying to get as far away from New York and Philadelphia is possible.So they also settle there, and they build a Quaker meeting house.So you have this tavern and you have the Quaker meeting house.

And too many times, unfortunately, the egos override the economics when acquisitions are made.And I think the classic on this one is if you go and look at a company that's now part of Pepsi, but before that it was Quaker Oats.Bill Smithburg was the CEO of Quaker Oats.

He finds all these people and gets them to do sworn depositions.And this looks like notes from like organic chemistry, but it's actually Ralph's notes from trying to piece together some of these Quaker lineages and who is related to who,who is married to who, who had played the game.

So the idea that people weren't calling it Monopoly, I mean, this comes up in the depositions.openly. And the court upholds his research and that the game actually originated with Lizzie Magie and these Quaker players.

So the idea that people weren't calling it Monopoly, I mean, this comes up in the depositions.But I actually-- this is going to sound really geeky, but recently through a game designer, I was able to play the Quaker version right

Because of that, they've went ahead and said, we buy Quaker Oats for oatmeal.

to say religions are always bad. There have been some periods in history when some religions have done good. There is the Quaker movement which was both pacifist and abolitionist.

So Ben Franklin was the founder of Penn, and sort of the revered figure of the Penn Quakers.

who is married to who, who had played the game.And a lot of these players-- you have to remember, this is like 30 years of history, so the Quakers-- and this is them later testifying.They're obviously older now.