With all due respect, R’ Shach, if this story is actually true, should have taken a leaf from Hillel hazakein, who when asked a deliberately STUPID question (as opposed to the legitimate one the girls were asking)by someone trying to make him angry, responded with the actual proper answer to the question, and did not diminish the person asking it.
Joseph, you have some pretty old-fashioned views about limud Torah, in the sense that you feel there is no long-term benefit to women knowing these things. Considering that from what I have inferred from previous posts of yours, you also feel that men should sit and learn all day and all night, it would seem prudent to have at least ONE parent at home who knows how to help her children with their limudei kodesh homework, would you not agree?
If Nechama Leibowitz, Z”L had only learned to bake cookies, I would never have developed the love of learning Chumash that I have today. Anyone who thinks that all women are capable or worthy of doing is baking cookies and darning sox, is hopelessly mired in the 18th century.