I would like my grandchildren to be educated in a community of learners, in which the teachers do not stand in front of their classes as if they alone hold the key to knowledge. Lectures and workbook exercises can’t teach confidence, creativity and humanity, so I’d like my grandchildren to be nurtured in an active educational setting that tolerates error as part of the learning experience, that teaches the languages of different cultures, sciences and arts

I’d like my grandkids to acquire a love for texts and testimony, for tradition and innovation, for art and artistry. In a world of strife, I hope they will strive to be part of the solution, well situated in Jewish values and history and able to see what their heritage can lend to the larger circle of humanity.

I hope they grow to be curious and industrious learners, with a love of Torah and Israel.I hope their teachers will inspire them to respect others and to believe that they are themselves worthy of respect.

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First let me focus on how I hope to educate my six children - hopefully they will pass on the positive values they have learned to my grandchildren. Because education is to a great extent, the skill of passing on the best of what we ourselves have learned, and discarding those unhelpful - or even detrimental - false values that we ourselves were taught in school or society.

My the time I reach grandparenthood, I hope that our education will have evolved to the extent that our children are educated to be proud Jewish global citizens. They will be sufficiently confident and knowledgable about the values and practices of their own heritage and traditions, that they are eager to take a leading role in exploration of the future.

They will be enjoy challenge and seeking out the answers to difficult questions, they will not be afraid of learning the best from others who are different from themselves, and they will be committed to leading a Jewish, civicly-responsible and ecologically-sustainable life.

I dream of a world where our children will be educated for tolerance-- love of all people created in the image of G-d, and a special sense of responsibility toward their Jewish brothers and sisters. This involves cultivating greater cultural sensitivity and understanding, as well as a commitment to stressing what we hold in common with others rather than what separates us.

I would like my 18 grandchildren (and those to follow) to receive an education which will make them committed to the ongoing existence and flourishing of the Jewish People and The Jewish Homeland and that the life-choices that they make will will contribute to these goals.

I wish that they will be encouraged to develop their natural curiosity in a way that will motivate them to learn about their religious and national heritage as manifested in the Divine Torah as well as learning about the world they live in and its inhabitants.

I hope they will learn to respect and honor their fellow human beings and the natural manifestations of the universe created by the Almighty.

I hope that they will learn to make use of discoveries and inventions of man in order to make this world a better one to live in for themselves and for future generations.

I'd like to see my grandchildren educated in a way that inspires them to connnect with their individuality. I want to see them learning in ways that speaks to their individual creativity. I would like to see my grandchildren enjoying their learning and in doing so, connecting with their past (history), their present and their future with respect and passion and joy.

לפני שחושבים על הדור הבא, עלינו לחשוב על הדור הזה. ולפני שנחשוב על הנכדים והילדים עלינו לדאוג כיצד אנחנו מחנכים את עצמנו.
כל אחד מאיתנו מרגיש די מחונך, מבין ויודע (מובן שיש עדיין מה ללמוד, אבל באופן כללי העולם די ברור). אנחנו די מפספסים. עלינו להמשיך ולהתחנך - לא ללמוד אלא להתחנך! בעיקר בשביל עצמנו אבל גם בשביל הדורות הבאים.
עלינו לחנך את עצמנו לחיות את האידיאל הקולקטיבי שלנו כעם.
כל אחד מאיתנו בונה השקפת עולם משלו, האם אני חושב על השאלה: מי אנחנו? כקולקטיב.
מה הערכים המנחים אותנו? מאיפה באנו ולאן אנחנו אמורים להגיע?
האם אנחנו חיים בשביל ללמוד או לומדים בשביל לחיות?
איפה לומדים בשביל מה אנחנו חיים?
ישנן עוד שאלות שחשוב מאוד שכל אחד ואחת מאיתנו ידעו להתמודד איתן כי את התשובות אליהן נצטרך לספק לדורות הבאים.
את האנגלית והמתמטיקה הם כבר ילמדו איכשהו, לחבר אותם לאידיאל הקולקטיבי - זה התפקיד שלנו!

I want my grandchildren to be educated to be excellent Jewish citizens of the world. By excellent, I am not talking about grades; rather, I refer to their level of menshlichkeit. I want them to be educated to see the incredible possibilities in the world and in Jewish life in particular. I want their education to be creative, visionary, and attainable. I want them to be educated to see that they, as individuals, can make a difference, that they can literally change the world like the Arthur Tannenbaum's at Everybody Wins USA and the Sarah Kass's, and others have. I want them to be educated to live the ethos of "Or L'Goyim," "L'taken Olam," and "Hitalech Lifanai v'hyei Tamim."