1) I’ll again ask you to please provide some samples of quotations made that you feel was taken out of context, as well as the original context it should have been made in and how you think that changes the meaning. I don’t believe any where taken out of context.
2) The context was insulting. He referred to YU being in the “real world” whereas the yeshiva world was not but rather in the cave. Just excluding them from the “real world” (a verbatim quote) itself is insulting. He directly implied that Bnei Torah should be told “go back to your cave!” for attempting to “impose the discipline of the cave on the “real world”.
3) RSC didn’t apologize or retract. He may have clarified his initial remarks were only applicable to less people than the media reports indicated. In context his initial remarks should have been self-understood to only apply to those he clarified they only applied to, but that limitation didn’t fit the media narrative reporting the initial remarks. Did RNL ever clarify he didn’t intend to refer to Bnei Torah as cave people?
4) Rav Volbe was discussing the real world situation how boys and girls are schooled in Limudei Kodesh. Nothing about extraordinarily gifted boys or extraordinarily gifted girls. The general rule applicable to the vast majority of yeshiva educated boys is that they are head and shoulders above the vast majority of beis yaakov educated girls in Torah. Rav Volbe was not in habit of relating “meaningless” points.
Related to this topic:
Aruch Hashulchan
We have never taught women from a book, nor have we ever heard people actually do so. Rather every mother teaches her daughter well-known rules women should know.
Sefer Hachasidim
One should teach his daughters practical law – not because there is a requirement for them to learn, but so that they should know the laws. Once they know the laws, there is no need for them to learn any more.
Torah Temimah (R. Boruch Epstein)
Girls do not have the intellectual stability and are, therefore, unable to make profound inquries with a sharp mind and appreciate the depth of the Torah. It is possible thay by using their own minds, they will transgress the Torah.
Tur (Yoreh Deah 246:15)
Most women’s minds are not geared toward being taught, but if she had begun to study properly herself, not making Torah into foolishness, she is no longer like most women and she is rewarded…