Best point I saw him make was about how Universities load up students with completely unnecessary courses. I’ll add to that: even courses with technical emphasis are almost always based around concepts irrelevant to industry.
Example: I am a degreed computer scientist. A strong number of my courses even _within_ the CS department involved things I’ve never come close to using. I can see adding courses for related fields (math, science, engineering, technical writing) since it’s likely that those skills are needed. But that, software engineering (which was a master’s level course when I did it) and computer language support with algorithm development... that’s enough.
Let’s say you want to be a teacher. You need courses in your intended specialty plus communications, writing, and perhaps some social (culture) studies, and I’d argue for some psychology. That’s enough. Not biology. Not chem. Not economics.
Two years should be quite sufficient for technical degrees.
To do this right, schools should also be going out of their way to partner with industry for internships to show kids exactly what they’re getting into... and then teach in that direction.
Trouble is, most professors don’t actually have real-world experience... and that’s a major part of the problem (along with forcing extra classes on students to prop up their revenues).
(end rant)
“Two years should be quite sufficient for technical degrees.”
True. And there should be two year schools for those who only want a technical degree. But a college/university bachelors degree should leave you a more rounded person with a broader world view and that requires courses outside the technical area. Admittedly, four year college/university bachelors degree programs don’t leave you a more rounded person with a broader world view because they tend toward indoctrination instead of education.
I think the entire model of education is completely outdated. It is what feeds a lot of evil in our society. It should be torn down and a completely different model should replace it.
...but is part of the system, will neve happen imo.
If colleges didn’t require undergrads to take courses in “grievance” studies, they wouldn’t be able to have teaching jobs for people getting PhD’s in those fields. . What a scam.