Shenot limud

Again and again the world of the children is sealed before us. All we have left is to look at their faces, their body gestures, to listen to their language - a mysterious, unexplored alien, from which we have been exiled forever. In anger or pain - is there a difference between the two? - I knock on locked doors, waiting embarrassed in front of a house I was not called to come; The bolts are locked, the windows are permanently closed. It occurs to me that the teacher's call, the call of all the teachers: Be with me, students, why are you not with me, please, be with me for a moment. Years of schooling is a documentation of school life through the eyes of a teacher and principal: honestly and sensitively, in clear and intimate prose, Gish Amit describes moments of closeness, hope and modest victories, but also failures, heartbreak and loneliness. This is a book that seeks to give consideration to the complexity of the educational act at this time; About the encounter between teachers and students, about teaching and parenting, and about the complicated world of childhood, in which pain and beauty are used together.