Reply To: College

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squeak
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DY – you’re taking this in circles… what other negatives? This was the one, no?

A yeshiva that lets Touro is clearly doing so b’dieved or they’d be sending the boys to a different college. Plus they do nothing to offer the boys in the way of role models or educated rabbeim who can help them navigate. Ner Yisroel is different though, and although I don’t know much about how it is there now, I can tell you that not too long ago they were definitely the role models of how to ensure yeshiva boys graduate college (anyone can send a yeshiva boy to college, but very often a college boy graduates). There was even one rebbi who had a list of books that certain classes would cover and for some of them the advice was skip the reading and skip those sessions. It lowers your grade but no one says you have to get an A in every class if you can get a C by being selective.

This is for literature. As for science, no part of what is taught can possibly result in exchanging belief systems if one has access to an educated mentor. Charlie is right – anyone who thinks so has a poor understanding of both science and of our religion.