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Teachers of My Youth - An American Jewish Experience (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Teachers of My Youth - An American Jewish Experience (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Series: Philosophy and Education, 5
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Having spent forty years teaching education and philosophy at
Harvard, and publishing widely on these topics during this period,
Israel Scheffler has now written a more personal book, looking at
education through the prism of his own early experience, primarily
of religious learning. The book consists mainly of portraits of his
early teachers, most of whom belonged to a transitional generation
of immigrant Hebrew scholars -- unsung heroes of Jewish education
on the American scene. Through the medium of such portraits of
teaching personalities and styles, as well as firsthand
descriptions of various educational settings in the New York City
of the 30s and 40s, he comments on aspects of immigrant life, the
tensions between religious and secular worlds, the psychology of
learning and teaching, the relations between universalism and
particularism, the contrasts between intensive education and
instrumental schooling, and related themes. These themes, although
exemplified in the details of his own experience, are of quite
general significance. The book will be of special interest for
those concerned with Jewish life, with religious education, with
the immigrant experience and with the recent American past.
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