level in this school. Co-responsibility in school did not mean a freewheeling life at "the Werkplaats". Children had to perform tasks such as cleaning the school, growing vegetables and fruits, and helping with lunch cooking. Boeke's notion of sociocracy was, in effect, a secular implementation of the Quaker ideals applied to education in such a way that children were treated as adults, and were on first-name terms with their teachers. In WWII, Kees and Betty sheltered Jews at their own peril, saving several lives. For this work, they were enshrined in Yad Vashem () in 1992. Boeke wrote a major book on education. One of his last works was Cosmic View (New York 1957). On 3 July 1966, Boeke died in the company of his family in Abcoude, Netherlands. Legacy Boeke's system of sociocracy still survives, and his work was expanded upon through the efforts of a well-known student of Boeke's ideas, Dr. Gerard Endenburg, who in the 1960s and 1970s developed a governance and decision-making methodology by the same name while directing the Endenburg Electrotechniek company. Boeke's essay/book Cosmic View (1957) presents a seminal view of the universe, from the galactic to the microscopic scale. It inspired several films: Cosmic Zoom (1968) produced by the National Film Board of Canada Powers of Ten (1968; new version in 1977) by Charles and Ray Eames The IMAX film Cosmic Voyage (1996) produced for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. Superpowers of Ten (2013), a theater piece produced by Andrés Jaque and performed at the Lisbon Triennial, the Chicago Architectural Biennial, Museo Jumex in Mexico and ZKM in Karlsruhe Cosmic View is mentioned as an inspiration by Will Wright, creator of a video game, Spore (2008). See also List of peace activists External links Official Website of the Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap Archief Kees Boeke Online copy of the book Cosmic View Cosmic View, the Universe in 40 Jumps (1957, John Day Company) References 1884 births 1966 deaths Dutch anti-capitalists Dutch educators Tax resisters Converts to Quakerism Dutch Quakers People from Alkmaar Delft University of Technology alumni Dutch Christian socialists Dutch Christian pacifists Dutch anti-war activists Nonviolence Quaker socialists