aussieboy I like your idea but I think even having classes with different learning tracks as you say and a point from before, classes with faster and slower learning. I am not familiar with the system of Darchei Torah, but I cant imagine how something like that can work in a society like ours. for educational purposes it sounds wonderful but wont the same thing happen with the classes that is happening with schools and seminaries (like by shidduchim, he/she is in the slower learning class, not for my child to associate with) I think many issues with living in a large community could be solved by changing the attitude of our society, which, is not very likely.
IMO, the ideal society would be 1. something that hasn’t happened in thousands of years, and that would be to have one community leader, less (no) fighting over whos more yeshivish/MO, and a system of takanos and kol korehs (practical ones) might actually work because the people who would go against it would not have anyone to defend them and would be outcasts. 2. a society that isnt plagued by money, or desire for it. people would be able to live within their means and it would remove a very materialistic attitude and replace it with calm, people would not get sick as a result of money pressures (ever see the inserts in some of the jewish weeklys about a father of several girls in Israel and needs to buy apartments for all of them, and went through whatever because of money stress?) 3. learning is not for everyone. I like the idea of a yissachar-zevulan relationship but its hardly done today. not everyone is cut out for learning and not everyone should be, I’m not saying not to learn, just dont do it because its the “in” thing to do.
I read through the comments when the thread first went up and I just reread the last few ones now. I apologize if I repeated someone elses idea. I think part of what I said is whats “supposed” to happen after mashiach comes, but thats ideal society so I guess I’m not too far off. 🙂