One side effect of the current college system in the US is that it gives us a ruling class that has spent most of their formative years cut off from the real world, living in educational institutions that teach them to think in a certain way. In the real world, most things that work in theory fail in practice, and progress often comes from incremental improvements rather than perfect grand theories.
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This may be useful for understanding potential shortcomings of the current education system and its impact on people's ability to adapt to the real world.
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