The First Explanation Of The Theory Of Education - 1470 Words

The first explanation is the theory of education. That Jews do well for the same reason as non-Jews, higher levels of education, but because Jews as a whole put greater emphasis on its importance throughout history do you see the disproportionate success. It has been proven that the higher the education, the higher the chances of a greater income. For example, in the United States the median income of a high-school graduate is $38,563 while the median income of someone with a master’s degree is $92,316 (Silbiger, 2000, p. 26). Pursuing an education requires the ability to delay gratification for a later payoff which is a basic Jewish belief that this world is here only to prepare you for the world to come (Avos 4 Mishna 17). Jews value†¦show more content†¦It isn’t just any education you could get from down the street. Dr. Sowell in his book Ethnic America found that â€Å"part of the reason for higher Jewish incomes is that Jews have not only more education b ut also better education – from higher quality colleges and in more demanding and remunerative fields.† Jews pursue more and better, higher quality education at a faster pace and with greater success than other non-Jewish Americans. Jewish efforts in educational advancement were noted by the non-Jews of America. An Italian immigrant in the 1920’s noted that his own ethnic group â€Å"has not yet learned the lesson which the American Jews could teach him so well.† That it is the duty of the child of uneducated, immigrant parents to pursue the highest education possible and achieve the success that his father could not (Silbiger, 2000, p. 23-35). There is no doubt that the Jewish culture values learning and education. Jews have been expelled from many countries throughout the centuries, the Crusaders en route to the Holy land in 1000s-1200s, Germany in 1182, England from 1290-1650, France in 1306 and 1394, in 1348 as blame for the European Black Plague, Austria in 1421, Spain in 1492, Vienna in 1670, Prague in 1744, Russian occupied Eastern Europe in the 1880s, and Europe during World War II. And of course there were the expulsions from Israel by the Babylonians in late 500 B.C.E and by the Romans in 100 A.D. (Silbiger, 2000, p. 26). Because of