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CHAPTER 4 – The Schools

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the schools in Israel. Hebrew education in Palestine evolved according to the traditional European pattern of the two-track system. Many lead through an 8-year public elementary school to a trade school or to employment. Conversely, few lead through private secondary schools, comprising grades 5–12, and fed by their own preparatory or primary classes to higher education. The introduction of free compulsory education in 1949 put an end to the two-track system. As Hebrew makes no distinction between more intimate and more respectful forms of address, discourse between pupils and teachers is characterized by a degree of familiarity, which may breed contempt on the part of the younger person. This grammatical lack of distance is further enhanced by the custom of teachers to address their pupils up to the end of secondary education by their first names.