ABSTRACT
Emmanuel Levinas was concerned with dialogue that encapsulated the ethical demands of the Other, and the direct impact this ethical relation has on individuals. Margolin noted the connection between Levinas' and Buber's philosophies and commented that 'Levinas proceeds in the same direction as Buber but offers a different premise'. Some commentators understand Levinas' encounter with the face as a concrete experience that can be recognised, while others are of the view that it is the necessary and sufficient condition for the possibility of ethics, and the existence and knowledge. Levinas was, of course, himself an educator, as realized through his work as teacher and director at the Ecole. His ethics supports a critique of uniformity and standardization in education because of its focus on the Other and its alterity. Levinas' position on Talmudic studies is interesting in that has a universal ethical aspect that is important for contemporary life.
