A Very Special Education: The Israeli Kibbutz
as the Kibbutz has stimulated great interest among behavioral scientists. To an extent far greater than in any other existing community, Kibbutz life is purposely and totally built around the principles of communal ownership of property, cooperative enterprise, comprehensive collective living, and collective education (chinuch meshutaf).2 For the past two years my wife and I have been engaged in a research project on personality development in the second generation reared in a Kibbutz. The Kibbutz we chose for