Yes, that is exactly the problem. One interesting anecdotes I heard from Stephen Wolfram the other day is the inverse correlation he's noticed between an emplo

Yes, that is exactly the problem. One interesting anecdotes I heard from Stephen Wolfram the other day is the inverse correlation he's noticed between an employee having a post-graduate degree and their general curiosity and knowledge about the wider intellectual world. It's far from a perfect correlation, he said, but it is noticeable. It's probably fair to say that the problem lies largely with universities and the way they structure their curricula and more generally the form of post-graduate studies. I have no idea how to improve matters. But the obsession with early specialization and standardized testing is probably a good place to start.