Reply To: Chinuch

TLIK,

So you seem to feel that the fact that Therapists do no thave veto ower over a Rebbi’s curriculum is a problem.

You seem to admit that the problems now-a-days have gooten worse.

You also admit that in schools nowadays there are trained therapists to assist or take care of children with issues.

This was not the case 15 years ago.

It is the case now.

So the school structure has changed, and those responsible for certain parts of chinuch have changed.

The change has meant the bringing in of out side secularly trained therapists.

The problems have grown worse, many times worse then they ever were before.

Incidentally the exact same trajectory has been seen before in the PS system,

As for the Rabbonim you qoute.

No I have not read most of them excluding Rav Shlomo Wolbe zt”l and I find it interesting that you qoute him.

I suggest you look for a small soft covered volume of a bunch of Rav Wolbe zt”ls letters that were published in honor of his shloshim.

One of the longest letters that Rav Wolbe writes is one where he goes through the basis of phsycology, it’s founders, his issues with two main “hashkofos” of phsycology (one of them being self esteem) writes that he beleives that physcology is responsible for the widespread KEfira in BEchira that is found today.

He ends by writing that the “war” of our generation is to be “marchik”, to push away the “daas’ of phsycology from our camp as much as possibe!

The letter is brilliantly written in the methodical crystal clear manner that anyone who has read of Rav Wolbe’s works is accustemed to so I would recomend you find the Sefer and learn it.

In this letter he makes reference to a much longer piece on the topic which he included in a Journal in Eretz Yisroel.

And by the way, yes, if my car is broken I bring it to a mechanic becuase mechanics have demonstrated they have the ability to fix cars.

Phsycology has been around for decades and the only thing they have demonstrated is widespread failure everywhere its “teachings” have been adopted.