Update: Related or coincidence?
Edsger W. Dijkstra with his typical insight and phrasing (he is missed)...
For the sake of the stability of the enterprise, the ideal of its manager is an organization that is as independent as possible of specific abilities of individual employees. The predominance of this ideal is a well-documented, international phenomenon; the ideal itself predates the high-technology industry, in which it could very well be inappropriate, and has discouraged the industrial eployment of scientists, in particular of the brilliant and original ones.
The American situation is aggrevated by a total lack of faith in its educational system and a deep-rooted mistrust of intellectuals...
Accordingly, prevailling industrial attitude exerts a strong pressure on the University not to indulge in such hobbies as scientific education, but to confine itself to vocational training of some sort or another.
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