Views On Education
Shach held that any secular education, at any level whatsoever, including high-school, was absolutely forbidden by the Torah. He wrote that any secular studies were banned by the sages of the talmud, and that specially the study of psychology and history is pure heresy. He also wrote that learning a trade before it became an immediate need, is forbidden.
When Shach was asked about opening a yeshiva exclusively for gifted boys, he said that it is impossible to know beforehand who will grow in Torah knowledge and who will not, and that all boys should therefore be given equal opportunities.
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