> Yes students need to work on the side as well but you cannot just wash your hands off and say "That’s not the problem of academia." My point is that academia

> Yes students need to work on the side as well but you cannot just wash your hands off and say "That’s not the problem of academia." My point is that academia must priorize theory over practice: 1- knowing the theory makes learning the practice easy, and not the other way around. 2- the theory is useful for your whole career. 3- Languages and frameworks evolve quickly, quicker than university courses [1]. [1]: In the university I was in they (re)define all courses every 3 years. That mean if you want to teach practice you must find something stable enough to be relevant for at the very least 3 years. They teach Java as a first language, Python for scripting; PHP for the Web; C for system stuff; OCaml then Scala as a functional language. As far as I remember it was roughly 80% theory 20% general practice (i.e. writing vanilla PHP instead of learning a Web framework).