By Mendi Rabinovitz, principal of Hadassah Neurim High School and head of a task force of graduates of the Mandel Institute for Educational Leadership who are working to change the model for matriculation exams

"What the education system needs is, first and foremost, the same thing that Diogenes requested of Alexander: for the sun that gives it nourishment not to be blocked. Which is to say, we have to remind ourselves of the real fundamentals of education - of the roots that feed the tree of learning."