I think it is important for students to be cynical about their schools and recognize that there is a huge difference between academia and real life. Most of sc

I think it is important for students to be cynical about their schools and recognize that there is a huge difference between academia and real life. Most of schooling is complete crap that you'll never use, or in the case of computer sciences especially it is outdated and/or barely practical by the time you graduate and get a job. What schooling is important for is teaching how to collaborate and how to learn. Most of the learning you'll actually use on the job is stuff you'll learn on your own or after you are hired by working with other people. In my opinion from what I read in this article these students working together to figure out a tough test and collaborating are using their brains and learning how to accomplish things. That is vastly more important than an arbitrary, contrived, academia model of learning.