benignuman -“Let’s stop with the hyperbole. It wouldn’t destroy the Yeshivos. It would just lower their numbers and/or their structure.”
It’s not hyperbole. You think this because you don’t understand what a Yeshiva is, even though you learned in one.
Letting others tell you what to do, how to act, destroys the character/Ruchnius of the Yeshiva. That’s why they closed down Volozon, it wasn’t that learning secular subjects was so bad, it was the fact that it was forced on the Yeshivos by the Gov. -meaning the Gov. was in charge.
As a matter of fact, there is a famous story about the Brisker Rov zt’l that s/o once came to him and asked if they could take money for his Yeshiva from the Medina. He took out a gold chain and broke it and then said this is what the Medina will do to the Yeshivos if you take money from them. Nowadays, we see how prophetic his words were!