I went with a pretty high expectancy [1,2] to pursue a Master’s degree in Computer Science at one of Germany’s best Universities in Computer Science. Soon I found that the education wasn’t at all as good as I had expected. The main reasons are unnecessary complexity or pretended knowledge and academic arrogance. I will briefly explain some of these points here without going into much detail. As you may have heard, German education prices itself by an inherent theoretical complexity. Initially, I was amazed by that apparently great and deep understanding the classroom material and professors brought to us. That was until I started to peek through the facade little by little. First, if the Universities were really superior, why then is there so little research output compared to US Universities? It seems like the professors always had to get back and name a few things like “we contributed to Siri’s (predecessor’s) AI and MP3 was invented at the Max Planck Institute.” Come on guys those things are fossils, is there really nothing new and more tangible? US Universities like Stanford are constantly spitting out tons of successful startups and innovations . If you are German and want to know how far behind German Universities are compared to US Universities in research output and innovation in general, read this book.
Over the years I’ve observed two bad things when it comes to computer science education. First, it simply is bad in general, with bad I mean badly structured and incomplete. Focusing on one thing but missing many other which are necessary to grasp the whole picture. In case the education is good, it still is mostly focused on a single area. I’m a holistic thinker
“The more basic knowledge you have the less new knowledge you have to get.” - Charlie Munger
In one of his latest Interviews at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk got asked the question of what his biggest challenge in life was. Elon took some seconds to rank and filter all his challenges and then responded:
“One of the biggest challenges I think is making sure you have a corrective feedback loop, and then maintaining that corrective feedback loop over time even when people want to tell you exactly what you want to hear…” - Elon Musk
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