Re:Is it time to change the undergraduate physics curriculum?
by throwawayjava on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:19PM
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> ...universities preparing people for academia...
I don't think there are many university programs explicitly designed to prepare people for academia. Where it happens, it's mostly just a case of people teaching what they know.
> So therefore it makes sense that universities prepare people for a job at a company.
This, of course, ignores the possibility that "learn[ing] the scientific basis of a subject" is not useful in an industrial career.
I don't think there are many university programs explicitly designed to prepare people for academia. Where it happens, it's mostly just a case of people teaching what they know.
> So therefore it makes sense that universities prepare people for a job at a company.
This, of course, ignores the possibility that "learn[ing] the scientific basis of a subject" is not useful in an industrial career.