I tend to think of most university education as taxpayer and student subsidized versions of the sort of training that companies should be doing. I think, for mo

I tend to think of most university education as taxpayer and student subsidized versions of the sort of training that companies should be doing. I think, for most programmers, a well-thought-out apprenticeship program would be better both for them and for the company, except that the amount of money we send to universities makes this economically infeasible.