An old yeshiva is planning new facilities and the chief architect invited me to join the team. The place is a religious kibutz founded in 1927 that has been converted into a downtown religious school. The project is financed by foreign donors: every building and every water fountain carries the name of the donor. The school houses 700 students, both sexes, most they live in. Many are Ethiopians and Orientals, but not only. A school like this provides jobs - low paying jobs - to a hundred religious families: teachers, administration, maintainance.
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These are not really "jobs" because they are not productive - they are like government jobs, which merely redistribute existing wealth without creating any.
K
These educational institutes are necessary. The alternative would be to have those children in the streets.
Having them in yeshiva is one step better than the streets. But wouldn't it be even better than that to teach them something useful that they could use to get jobs? And while we're thinking about this, why do we need all these children if they are good-for-nothing other than to be warehoused at cost to donors/the public and have little capability? Hmm, J?
The yeshiva in question is of the Religious - Zionist faction, and the boys and girls get a general ("bagrut") education as well as religion. They live in the place and have 8 hours of class per day (it was on the wall). Few if any of them is university material.
About the question why we need them, I dont have an answer. We Jews are like that, we try to educate even the mongolics (I saw a pair of fat mongolic girls, no kidding!)
The meek shall inherit the earth
Ivan
And then they will destroy it.
Anon.
Which they cannot as they are by definition "meek". God will take care of things through His handmaid, Nature. I recall being worried about where all the firewood for cooking was going to come from in India, now the Indians are finding natural gas wherever they strike. Its the same in Israel. Of the material substratum of civilisation, information is already as free as air, the others energy and materials are experiencing a period of sustained expansion. When the markets come back into equilibrium, we may well find that we have to force the Earthlings to buy a lot of crap just to keep the factories running like in some Phillip K Dick story. Had the darwinian acolytes been around at the turn of the 19th century the worrywarts would have frightened themselves sick at the shortage of hay.
Ivan
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