<div dir="ltr">R' Heshy Goodman claims that men are more suited for transcendant, abstract, learning (like the floating yod), while women are more down to earth (the firmly planted heh).<br><br>My experience with girls/women educated in the Israeli DL Torani system is that they do not learn gemara, but learn lots of very abstract machshava - Maharal, Rav Kook, Kuzari, Chassidus, etc. IMHO, gemara would have given them a more clear, logical, feet-on-the-ground mode of thinking and analyzing. All that machshava and no gemara too often translates into floating fluff.<br>
<br>Yes, my own daughters are in that system, which has many wonderful aspects. As RnSP has pointed out on Areivim, choosing educational institutions for one's children always involves compromise.<br><br>- Ilana<br></div>