Well the problem is that academia has been co-opted into being a vocational school (especially for STEM), when its purpose is scientific research. People lookin

Well the problem is that academia has been co-opted into being a vocational school (especially for STEM), when its purpose is scientific research. People looking for vocational schooling (e.g. "computer programmer") are frustrated that a lot of the education is theoretical/purely scientific and therefore "useless", and professors are frustrated having to teach disinterested students or university mandated material not relevant to research. Both parties feel the other is wrong when in reality neither is---the relationship society has forced them into is wrong.