We NEVER has mass Kollel learning, In Europe ONLY the top learners kept in yeshiva, the rest went to work.
I love how you only dislike changes when it increases yidishkeit, but anything which decreases yidishkeit is good adapting to the times. I’d like to see the gehenom I’ll get from learning too much torah.
Anyway, I figured out the real pshat. And I’ll debut it in a new thread. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/the-real-pshat-in-universal-kollel