She summarized,
"I lost my mentors, and in their place I gained role models."
...
It doesn't sound to me like a value judgment in favor of one or the other. Others may read it differently.
Showing posts with label societies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label societies. Show all posts
Demographics
Someone recently quoted to me an insightful comment by a teenage girl. She had been asked to describe her transition from attending a cozy small-town high school to attending a much larger high school in a larger community.
Telz
Rabbi Y. G. Bechhofer's article on the Telz yeshiva is here:
Telshe: 120 Years Since the Founding of the Yeshiva
"Rabbi Bar Shaul writes that in Telshe there were no mussar shmuessen, rather shiurei da'as. A shmuess is emotional, inspirational, and often informal. It is an experience of the heart. A shiur da'as is intellectual, educational, and covers a topic in a formal and systematic manner. It, too, reaches the heart, but via the mind."
Telshe: 120 Years Since the Founding of the Yeshiva
"Rabbi Bar Shaul writes that in Telshe there were no mussar shmuessen, rather shiurei da'as. A shmuess is emotional, inspirational, and often informal. It is an experience of the heart. A shiur da'as is intellectual, educational, and covers a topic in a formal and systematic manner. It, too, reaches the heart, but via the mind."
Girls at War
There are some interesting insights into teenage girls' education in this article on girls in the Shomron:
Girls at War
Like this one:
"This was every rebel teenager’s paradise—nature and a cause."
Girls at War
Like this one:
"This was every rebel teenager’s paradise—nature and a cause."
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