“The idea of emphasizing Hebrew grammar comes much before the influence of the Haskalah. It goes back to the Maharal. So does the emphasis on Machshovoh. It goes back to the Maharal who was really a first-rate educational reformer who was critical of the extant system.
“Incidentally, we have now reverted to the system that he
criticized. We teach Gemorah and that’s all; you start a boy on Gemara before
he knows how to read Chumash and Rashi and you put him into pilpul immediately.
The Maharal was very upset by it.”
Rabbi Norman Lamm in Dalfin, Conversations with the Rebbe,
p. 98
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