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The position of priority Judaism assigns education in its system of values is
captured in the following statement from the Shulchan Aruch, the authoritative code of
Jewish law compiled by Rabbi Joseph Caro in 1564. In section Yoreh Deah 245:6, it is
written, “Teachers for children are appointed in every city, and a ban is pronounced upon
the inhabitants of any city which does not have a teacher within it until they appoint a
teacher for the young. And if they do not make such an appointment, they are destroying
the city, i.e., they are undermining rather than sustaining the future existence of the city.
For the world is sustained only by the breath of schoolchildren.”