Yeshivos are not about producing gedolei hador. How many gedolei hador can there be at any one time? The term itself implies a limited amount. The gedolim of a generation. If there would be a thousand of them, then they wouldn’t all be gedolei hador; only the greatest among them would be.
Yeshivos are trying to produce people who are gedolim themselves in Torah, Yir’ah, and other related midos. But not in relation to anyone else.
Of those tens of thousands of bochurim passing through Mir, BMG, Brisk etc, most if not all have grown from the yeshiva to be gedolim, more than they would’ve had they done other things.
This tripe about producing gedolei hador is routine talking points from the anti Bnai Torah crowd. They ant to know how many gedolim there are, make a quota system, and then send the rest to the army, to college, or wherever. Just not in the Bais Medrash. They do not understand the concept of as many people as possible, each one focused on his own personal spiritual growth more than other pursuits.
PS: Ponevez is bigger than Brisk, perhaps Slobodka as well, although they don’t cater to the Americans nearly as much as Brisk and Mir.
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