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You are correct, but your reading is still untenable. “Their minds are not lend themselves to education” is how I’m understanding you’re reading. Firstly, that is a funny way of expressing the idea that they are not logical in thought, in my opinion. Secondly, I see the outcome of such a problem in that they will err in their understanding of Torah/Halacha. I would not say that that would lead them to turn divrei Torah into “divrei havai”. And I persoanally think its absurd to say that women can’t think logically. If you want to say women are more ’emotionally-driven’, that would make sense only as to the weight they will give to the emotional aspect of a situation, not to the inability to process the different aspects logically.

According to your understanding, how do the poskim say that the minority of women can learn themselves – the ones who’ve decided that they are logical ?!

Interjection – I don’t think that’s not an honest portrayal of the situation. Number one, you are taught certain subjects. Those are not the ones which lead to the name calling you refer to, if one wishes to continue to pursue them. Secondly, the fact that its considered important today for women to have a certain grounding in Torah does make it an ideal for them to continue to pursue it. After all, no one taught you that its the “most important thing for YOU, did they ?

I do think its absurd to encourage women to develop intellectually for 18 years, and then to think they’ll be ok to just shut off and be satisfied with diaper-changing.

That last comment makes you sound very bitter about SOMETHING. Why exactly should an enabler of Torah get all/most of the reward over the ones who learns ?