“Secondly, the Gemorah discusses secular education and basically frowns down upon it (look it up).”
Please provide a source.
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” Furthermore, the Natziv closed down his Yeshivah in order not to have forced secular education. This is a long discussion and here is not the place for it.”
Not exactly. The Russian government wanted to make the secular studies the ikkar (from morning until mid-afternoon) and Torah the taffel. It seems that the Natziv would have accepted some secular studies bedeiavad, but not the way it was being put upon him. Also the Russians wanted to dictate the curriculum.