When addressing this issue, everyone dances around the 800 lb gorilla in the room. How can yeshivot now begin to teach students that work is preferable to learning for most people, without having to either outrightly or tacitly admit that the message over the past fifty years, that learning is preferable to everything else, was wrong? How are yeshivot and Bais Yaacovs to maintain the prestige of gedolei Yisrael in this reversal of pedagogical policy? Worse yet, doing such a thing might lend prestige to a whole group of Jews, the Modern Orthodox and their rabbinic leaders, who have been reviled and whose doctrines have been outrightly dismissed by the chareidi communities. No problem is ever solved until one admits there is a problem and this problem is not poverty. The real problem is far more fundamental.
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