[Avodah] The Vilna Gaon and Secular Studies

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:04:09AM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: I would like to continue to correct what you wrote in an earlier post.
: 
: From https://goo.gl/e4pm3b
: 
: "Revel consistently maintained that secular knowledge in Judaism was
...

Before the wave in question, but not the cause of the day school
explosion. I do not know why this is so hard of a point to get
across. Being around first but not starting a trend does not make
something the source of the eventual trend. Post hoc ergo propter hoc
is flawed reasoning.

In fact, he didn't run a day school. And for that matter TA wasn't fully
seperate from REITS. It wasn't a HS model that caught on anywhere.

The model of day school and HS that actually catches on across American
O through the middle of the 20th cent was the product of compromises
between R ("Mr") SF Mendolovitch and his parent body.

When TA evolved into MTA and BTA, it was because other schools have
already created different expectations of what a HS was. Being in the same
track as the eventual college degree, so that going from TA to any other
college but YC was more like a transfer, was not sellable. (Although it
did make AP courses moot; just take a college course in your 3rd year,
if you were ready to.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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