Reflections on the Community Idea in Jewish Education

It was Edward Dahlberg, Kansas City's great gift to American letters, who observed that, as between a friend or an enemy, he always chose an enemy. An enemy is more reliable. Sometimes we need protection from the friends of Jewish education the well-meaning, well-intentioned passionate proponents of day school education who seem to believe that mobilizing support for day schools requires them to “bad-mouth” the supplementary school.