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ansvers to the basic questions of life, an intense yearning for a
set of values that man can hold on to in an uncertain world.
I
have visited a number of colleges and universities in the past two
years to try to discover how far courses of study were meeting
the needs of young people today. One thing that impressed me
constantly was the desire of both faculties and the students to
learn about the truths men have held sacred in different times
and under different conditions. I regret to say that the schools
and colleges have not provided sufficient opportunity for students
to relate the miscellaneous body of knowledge they acquire to a set
of moral precepts or integrating values which could serve at once as
a guide for their own conduct and a measure of the conduct of their
fellows. Jewish schools can provide such a set of values in terms
of the Jewish faith. They can inculcate those moral values and
virtues without which life loses its meaning to the individual, and
society becomes a jungle of selfish human beings.
Thirdly, Jewish education can do what I should hope all
institutions would try-to dó, inspire in the minds and the hearts
of young people the concept of the dignity of all human beings
regardless of their faith, their color, or their peculiar circum-
stances of life. I think the church-related schools can do this
more effectively than others because they can reinforce their
teachings with an emotional content. I am distressed at the number
of persons who seem to understand concepts of justice in the abstract,
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