Rabbi Jack D. Spiro, director of the Commission on Jewish Education of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, told the 61st biennial general assembly of the UAHC that religion’s increasing reliance on “computerized, technological” solutions of educational problems gravely endangers the transmission of moral and ethical values. He also criticized pedagogical approaches to religious education which is satisfied with bareboned facts of dates, events and personalities but is not “fleshed out with contemporary meaning, values and concern by the teacher.”
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