It is ironic that in this thread we have someone who has taken a long screen name to indicate that “secular knowledge is the equivalent of an evil king who tried to uproot Torah Judaism”.
That is incorrect. Secular knowledge is not, in and of itself, the equivelant of “evil king. . .”. Secular knowledge raised upon the same pedestal as Torah is. For that blurs the distinction between that which is kodesh and that which is chol. Etc. (For the record, “Cheil (ches-yud-lamed) Yavan” = 120 = “madda”. Meaning that the army of yavan is secular knowledge. For it has enormous latent danger within it.)