Well I don't agree with your premise on what University is supposed to be. There's a lot one has to learn about how things have been done before one can even co

Well I don't agree with your premise on what University is supposed to be. There's a lot one has to learn about how things have been done before one can even conceive of whether or not an idea is new. Today we stand on the shoulders of giants to create things previous generations could not, but we still have to climb up to their shoulders in order to see where to go. Without that perspective, people spend a lot of cycles doing things that have already been done, making mistakes that have already been made. There's value in gaining that knowledge yourself through trial and error but it takes much longer than a 4 year program if that's the way you want to learn. My role is that of a ladder. People are free to do whatever they want, create whatever they want once they get to the top. And anyway, we graduate students who go on to create new things every year. So proof is in the puddin.