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| Authors: | Morton Siegel |
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| Institution: | Department of Special Education , Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York |
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| Abstract: | In response to your invitation to participate in a symposium on Jewish supplementary education in the next decade, I would like to suggest a number of processes which should be considered and implemented in order to make for an effective and rewarding educational system. In spite of the recent growth in the number of children in Jewish day schools, more than two-thirds of the Jewish students registered in Jewish schools attend supplementary schools in a variety of programs. Therefore, frustration and hand-wringing which have become too fashionable among laymen and professional educators who readily proclaim these schools to be inherently ineffectual due to constraints of time, the unavailability and inadequacy of trained and committed teachers, the indifference of family and community, etc., leaves us with a sense of hopelessness. Such an attitude is destructive and must not be perpetuated. Instead our energies should be invested in a thorough reexamination of the constructs of the schools within the framework of the total Jewish community. If we recognize that great education can only come from bold and creative measures confronting the nature, the values, the conditions and the potentialities of the civilization in which we live, the schools and the community agencies must plan together to meet the challenge. |
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