On 22/03/2011 1:33 PM, mP wrote:
Your commentary precisely backs up my point, they remain in academia which has a different focus which is quite different to the targets and goals of the business world. Therefore after all that their attention and priorities are more selfish towards their opinions and bias rather than what exactly is required in a real world environment.
There is a aspect to this which is correct - but it can be taken too far. Just because their personal objective is not business oriented does not mean they cannot teach things useful to programmers who will work in the business world.
However, Professors also teach multiple subjects, and the ones I know teach some subjects that are not so interesting to them, but they accept that as part of the job. We all have things in our jobs that are less enjoyable I suspect.
How do you get feedback from real industry? Well, the University I was at teaches post graduate students whom the lecturers talk to. They do read up on various sources. They talk to people in industry. But they also see the importance of teaching skills like problem solving and giving breadth of experience. Teaching a student one technology is not always that useful - technology dates. Its teaching the skill to pick up new technologies that is more useful. You just have to pick some technology to use in practice as a vehicle.
Anyway, I don't think this line of discussion is being that productive so I am going to drop out of it. I just reacted to what appeared to be pretty blanket statements. I know a number of academics that have moved into industry, and industry people that teach at Universities. I would not necessarily agree that business people are better teachers than Professors. But I do agree that I have come across Professors that are very much focussed on their own pet interests - but I find similar people in industry too! I think its a part of being human! ;-)
Alan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
