[Avodah] The Vilna Gaon and Secular Studies

[Prof. Levine]

At 06:10 AM 4/11/2018, Moshe Yehuda Gluck wrote:

>I can go on; my thesis is that there is not much basis to the argument that
>a well-rounded education makes much of a difference in understanding Torah.
>What would be much more efficient and effective would be a focused companion
>sefer to Shas that gives the background on those sugyos that need some
>secular knowledge in order to understand them.

Please read RSRH's  essay


<https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/relevance_secular_studies_jewish_education.pdf>The 
Relevance of Secular Studies to Jewish Education (Collected Writings VII)

YL
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