On the surface it's pretty obvious that classroom learning doesn't immediately translate to real world experience, but the paper's finding seems to be more abou

On the surface it's pretty obvious that classroom learning doesn't immediately translate to real world experience, but the paper's finding seems to be more about the extreme degree of discrepancy between the two cohorts. It almost feels like a comment on social class distinctions - there are children who get classroom educations that don't have to use it, while others have to use the skills but don't get the related education.