Here is a quote from an upcoming Horizons article:
How did this elitism come about?
What took place over the next forty years was the rise of an elitist system. When I was growing up and went to school, the teachers would speak to the average student, trying to involve and reach everyone in the class. But in an educational system geared to the elite, the teacher cares primarily about the geniuses, certainly not the slower students.
In this system, there are certain known yeshivos at the top, and everybody wants to get into them. From the earliest years, parents and their kids are aspiring and planning to achieve acceptance in those elite schools. The teachers and principals are also caught up in it.
What reaction do you get when you say things like this?
And naturally parents are ambitious for their kids and want the best for them.
An elite shidduch for an elite school graduate.
Oh.
Rabbi Haber: You know, not everybody can be the tzadik of the generation. Rabbi Dr. Avraham Twersky tells of a discussion he once had during a visit with the Steipler Gaon, whom people often consulted for medical advice. Since he had heard that Rabbi Twersky was a psychiatrist, he inquired about medications for mental illnesses.
Sounds like the system is designed to spread the malady.
Do you have a solution?
Thank you, Rabbi Haber.
Rabbi Haber: Thank you.