88: Raising and Instructing Children Through Culture with Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin

Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin is the academic director and dean of the Lobel Center for Jewish Classical Education. His prior work on Jewish Classical Education as a research fellow with Tikvah was featured in the Wall Street Journal. He received his PhD in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton University and Yeshiva University, and taught at both CUNY and Princeton. He is also a chaplain in the Army National Guard with the rank of Major. Rabbi Rocklin is also the president of the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty, as well as a member of the Rabbinical Council of America’s Executive Committee and Military Chaplaincy Committee. Prior to his work at Tikvah, he served as a congregational rabbi in Connecticut. His writings have been featured in publications including The Los Angeles Times, National Review Online, The Daily Wire, The Forward, The Public Discourse, and Mosaic. 

 

Gems:

• Learn about what will stick with your students.
• Recover the sense of culture.
• Incorporate culture while maintaining our own uniqueness.
• Learn about what makes up culture in its entirety.
• Judaism has had a profound impact on culture.
• We are not only part of Western civilization, but also responsible for the transformation of it. 
• We need to understand civilization and the impact Jews have had on it.
• Our spiritual life should be inspiring.
• Learn TanaH thoroughly.
• Teach students how to read the text.
• Raise your expectations of what students can handle.
• Incorporate Hebrew from an early age.
• Figure out how to inspire your students.
• Help students learn about their place within our civilization.
• Education is the raising and instruction of children in which we pass on culture.
• Learn as we teach.
• We are conveying a living tradition.
• Teach them things that they ought to know while inspiring them to want to learn more.
• Prepare the knowledge base that students can build upon. 

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