Gavra, I don’t know that much about Touro, but think of it this way. Do you believe that YU should pull another Galileo who was forced by the Church to teach that the Sun goes around the Earth or else be burnt at the stake? Do you think science would have progressed if it was under the control of religious authorities? That is strictly middle-age stuff. YU would be a laughingstock if they did that. (And its graduates could not go on with their careers as scientists or whatever, if they came from a school with a lousy reputation.) We can debate whether college is good or bad, and whether secular studies should or should not be learned. But if you hold that there is a heter or a need to learn secular studies, you need to run a serious institution, or else we are wasting the student’s time altogether.
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