ISBN: 9781154015003

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OF THE TALMUD CHAPTER I. THE sages of the Talmud held the school and the process of instruction in the highest estimation. To them the school was the very essence of life; the calling of a teacher, the highest and holiest of all pursuits. Indeed, even after the closest and most careful investigation, we cannot find a single passage, either in ancient or in modern literature, which so admirably sets before us the school, in its true aspect--that of the most important and the highest object on earth--as the statement of R. Jehuda Hannasi, ''The world exists only by the breath of school-children.''1 The Talmud emphatically asserts the education of children to be a work of especial merit, and the importance of school and instruction cannot be too highly estimated. 1 Sabbath, 119B. The whole stability of the world, inasmuch as it is intended to support sensible, thinking beings, is linked with the stability of the school, just as every effect is linked with its cause. ''A town which has no school and no school-children should be demolished.''1 It is further affirmed that ''Jerusalem was destroyed because schools and school children ceased to be there.''2 Taken at their true worth, therefore, teachers and schools are the supporters, guardians, and defenders of a town, and are justly so called. For, wherever a comprehensive mind prevails in the midst of a people or State, where intellect penetrates all objects and all circles of life, there the work of moral development is unceasingly maintained by all, individually and collectively. There, too, the teachers of the young occupy an honourable position in society, stepping forward with their knowledge among the ranks of the people, training, educating, refining, and ennobling them. ''A... Baer Spiers, Books, History, The School System of the Talmud, with a Sketch of the Talmudical Treatise Baba Kama.' Books>History, General Books LLC<