Resolutions criticizing recent attacks on parochial schools and calling for the establishment of more parochial Hebrew schools in the United States were adopted here last night at the concluding session of the two-day convention of 250 Jewish religious educators representing Orthodox Hebrew Day Schools in a number of American cities.
A resolution clearly aimed at Harvard President Conant who recently called the parochial schools “divisive,” stated: “We affirm the basic American and democratic right inherent in the establishment and support of the Hebrew Day School. The Hebrew Day School, as well as the private and parochial school, is part and parcel of the American educational and democratic scene. This fact is not so by right or by sufferance, but by the dignity of privilege. A true democracy is not one which regiments its educational system, but one which allows experimentation and private initiative full away as long as its main objectives are in consonance with the over-all aims of America and the democratic heritage.”
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