On: On the cruelty of really teaching computing scienc...

[tomohawk]

> Do the universities provide for society the intellectual leadership it needs or only thetraining it asks for?

How about both?

There is a necessary and sufficient course of study for someone to be successful - gainfully employed as a programmer using technologies of the day.

There is a different course of study that is necessary and sufficient to produce an academic.

Many other areas of study are similar. It is one thing to train someone to be a lawyer, quite another to train someone to be a law professor.