An American authority on Jewish day schools forecast the possibility today that the recent creation of the new World Council on Jewish Education might result in aiding and furthering of the Jewish day school movement in this country.
Dr. Isidor Margolis, executive vice-president of the National Council for Torah Education, an agency for creation and counseling of Hebrew day schools, based his prediction on his evaluation of the recent Geneva World Conference on Jewish Education, at which he was a member of the American delegation. He said the delegates generally agreed that Sunday schools and afternoon Jewish schools could not be expected to produce the Jewish teachers of which there is a desperate shortage in many countries, particularly in the United States.
He added that there was virtually unanimous agreement that the all-day school was the most dependable “seed-bed” for prospective candidates for the Jewish teaching profession, He said that “if the World Council on Jewish Education is to make any real dent in the problem of the growing shortage of Jewish teachers,” it cannot overlook the all-day school as a basic source. To provide future teachers, he pointed out, the day school movement needs assistance.
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