People cite the high costs, the lack of time, the inadequacy of the teachers … and all of these may be true, and yet: Were we to solve all these problems, we still would not be addressing the real dilemmas intrinsic to the endeavor of Jewish education. We will look together at sociological research and philosophical theories from the past century leading to one inescapable conclusion: Jewish education can and does work, when we aren't afraid to let it!