@Alphakilopapa @alex there needs to be SOMETHING to pass on technical knowledge to the next gen. And no, "learning on the job" is not an option for a lot of fields. There's an entire infrastructure required. That's even true for software engineering since there's a ton of topics that simply never come up in the normal course of business, but you still need to implicitly know them if you want to be anything more than a code monkey.

However, I agree that the current form of college is not it.