I am posting the following just for the sake of sharing a quote I liked in an essay I'm reading:
In workouts a football player may bench press 300 pounds, even though he may never have to exert anything like that much force in the course of a game. Likewise, if your professors try to make you learn stuff that's more advanced than you'll need in a job, it may not just be because they're academics, detached from the real world. They may be trying to make you lift weights with your brain.
By Paul Graham, Undergraduation. I don't suppose it will completely eradicate the comment "What good does it do me to learn [put a beautiful piece of theory, technology, etc here]? People don't use it." Another reply of course might be to point out that "maybe they should".
Simon Hudon
June 14th, 2011
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