“At the same time, his mother noticed that he was learning chassidus to the detriment of the gemora, and directed the father to take take from his all-important position and teach the child himself.”
YU hosts “pride” clubs, does ChaBaD? Maybe he should have learned chassidus to avoid this terrible aversion to the derech. Modern orthodoxy obviously has an Avodah Zarah problem with “pride”. G-d have mercy on these tormented souls.