For as long as parents and teachers have been educating children there has existed a tension between two complementary but also at times competing values. On the one hand, education is an investment in a profession. By that standard, a successful educational outcome is judged by whether a pupil is adequately prepared to enter the working world and find gainful employment. Equally critical to a successful educational outcome is the socialization of our children into honest, kind, empathetic and socially productive citizens. Ideally, our children will emerge from 15 years of Jewish education as both socially and economically productive […]
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