> ...universities preparing people for academia... I don't think there are many university programs explicitly designed to prepare people for academia. Where i

> ...universities preparing people for academia... I don't think there are many university programs explicitly designed to prepare people for academia. Where it happens, it's mostly just a case of people teaching what they know. > So therefore it makes sense that universities prepare people for a job at a company. This, of course, ignores the possibility that "learn[ing] the scientific basis of a subject" is not useful in an industrial career.