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The Future This essay is not an exercise in futurology . It is an attempt to describe how one individual envisages a possible evolution of the education system in Israel . When V . S . experts recently looked into their school system , they concluded that their nation was at risk . One does not wish to dramatize , but it would be no exaggeration to say that , without a meaningful modification of its education system , Israel might be at risk too . Education , by its nature , is directed to the future . The children who enter kindergarten today must be prepared for life twenty and thirty years hence . The social , economic and cultural needs of the early part of the twenty-first century might well be even more complex and more challenging than the problems of our time . Are we bringing up a new generation that will be capable to face the challenges ? To be the People of the Book implies obligations of an intellectual and spiritual kind . A neglect of these obligations would mean a drift into mediocrity of thinking and shoddiness of performance . This should be out of the reckoning . A return to the Holy Land should also signify a return to the sources of the values of the Jewish people . Once the art of learning has been acquired at school and at university , it is likely to be practised for the rest of one's life . There might then arise a society of lifelong learners . A total effort is called for when one speaks of education . In this
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