Reply To: R Soloveichik on girls education

Avira, I am also not onboard with the idea of teaching girls exactly same things as boys. I understand RYBS as not a need to have coed education, but that was a practical way to raise girls education from the abysmal level it was in pre war Europe. He is writing this in 1950s and to a wider community than those who followed r Kotler at the time. This is parallel to his view of what “boys” should be taught for yu semicha a couple of years before: teach curriculum that prepares community rabbis who can say a dvar Torah, deal with shul and marriage in the community, not necessarily deal with complicated gemoras.