[tbrownaw]

How much time of a traditional 4 year college is spent on skills that a grad would actually need or use? A lot of it is just archaic legacy.

I thought it was moe that universities are meant to promote general enlightenment as much as (or, primarily rather than) useful trade skills. With a fair bit of confusion coming in where some skills (engineering, S/W development) depend heavily on (parts of) said enlightenment (math, how people think).

[mcguire]

That was always a big argument when I was in and around a university computer science department: how much time you spend on "general enlightenment" topics like linear algebra and how much to spend on specific, valuable skills, like x86 assembly.