This author states his belief that Jon Woocher's essay is the latest in a long line of jeremiads bemoaning the state of Jewish education. Kelman believes that, though a bit more sanguine than the other "withering portraits" he cites, Woocher's essay falls very much in their tradition of critique and corrective; "Here's what's wrong," argues each successive essay, "and here's what ought to happen." Thus, Woocher's essay is just the latest, though certainly not the last, in this long literary tradition. Like all of its predecessors and despite its deployment of lingo borrowed from the worlds of business and technology ("disruptive innovation," "prosumer," and "co-producer," to name a few) and the forward-looking framework they suggest, Woocher's essay is actually most instructive as a statement about the anxieties of the present, not as a prescription about the future. Woocher's contribution might be best understood as an echo of Walter Ackerman's blistering and brilliant critique of Jewish education from 1969. Though packaged as a proposal about the future, Woocher's essay, like all predictions, cannot be anything but a decidedly presentist document. The essay displays all the same anxieties of generational change as Ackerman (1969) does, albeit with less crankiness and more fascination. Ultimately, however, Kelman asserts that Woocher's vision of the future offers greater insight into his anxieties about the present, and about cultural, communal, religious, educational changes that are already being felt even if they are not quite understood. Read as a primary document about Jewish generational anxiety at the dawn of the 21st century rather than as a vision for the future, Woocher's essay offers a compelling and rich depiction of things as they are refracted through the lens of how he and many of his generation think they ought to be.