I think he's making the common mistake University is not there to teach specific skills but to teach you the broad elements of a field. It should be food for t

I think he's making the common mistake University is not there to teach specific skills but to teach you the broad elements of a field. It should be food for thought as we discuss this article that the author is the son of a famous computer scientist who is a professor of computer science at Yale. I think the nature of a university education and what a university education is for was probably dinner-table conversation at his home as he was growing up.