This is a big problem. A guy can sit in yeshiva for 7 years and only know 49 blatt — 7 blatt from each year’s mesechta. There is slow, and there is too slow. By the same token, there is fast and there is too fast. I’ve personally heard Rabbi Belsky of Torah Vodaath call the American style of “iyun and bekius” “chipus and kria” because iyun seder is spent searching for excuses not to move on and bekius is spent reading without any havana. People would get more Torah out of a solid daf yomi (if it was given at an hour when they could concentrate).
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