I actually agree with both you and the person you are replying to. You can learn in both academia and industry, but you learn completely different things. In i

I actually agree with both you and the person you are replying to. You can learn in both academia and industry, but you learn completely different things. In industry, you typically learn more about business and current "trends" in technology, whereas in school you improve your fundamentals and have the opportunity to learn more hard skills, like machine learning, programming languages, etc. I'd argue there is a lot more opportunity to learn in school than industry though, if only because you can go at your own rate in school so if you wanted to learn about current technology in school you could easily do so on your own. Still, I think a lot of it really boils down to having responsibilities that you are getting paid for vs not being paid but having the freedom to do what you want. I certainly have learned a lot since leaving school, but the majority of it has not been due to being in industry but learned on my own time.