ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the collective educational system that is only a part of the broader kibbutz learning environment. It explains some aspects of education: the wider meaning of learning in a society like the kibbutz; the similarity between social and educational principles in the community; the actual structure of schooling and childrearing in the kibbutz; and the consequences of the kibbutz educational system. Problems of the younger ages in Kibbutz Vatik are of three types: planning, staff-parent relations, and the special needs of certain children. The education committee must plan children's trips, work out budgets, make sure that new baby houses are constructed if new children are expected, plan ahead for adequate new staff, and make the schedule for the present staff of nurses. The high school is located about a mile from the community, near another kibbutz. It is a regional high school whose budget and staff are cooperatively shared by several neighboring kibbutzim of the same movement.
