Yehuda Rahaniyev: Violence, loneliness, and cold knowledge without values are emptying our children of humanity

Yehuda Rahaniyev argues in an opinion piece that the Israeli education system, which has remained largely unchanged since the Industrial Revolution, is dehumanizing children through rigid discipline, rote memorization, and grades. He describes difficult personal experiences from school and calls for the abolition of the existing system.

Yehuda Rahaniyev, a cultural creator and curator, argues in an opinion piece that the current Israeli education system, which has remained largely unchanged since the Industrial Revolution, is dehumanizing children through rigid discipline, rote memorization, and grades. He describes difficult personal experiences from school, including a teacher who lit cigarettes in class and an English teacher who punished him by making him stand for six months. Rahaniyev contends that in the age of artificial intelligence, school can no longer be based on the transfer of information, and that its hidden role is to serve as a national babysitter. He points to large gaps in the system, a rise in emotional distress among teenagers, and a lack of values education. The solution he proposes is the abolition of the existing system and the creation of a new, sensitive, and professional system that will lead children inward into themselves.