I think people in tech are a bit myopic regarding college. Traditional undergraduate programming education does seem very antiquated because the practice of programming lends itself to autodidactism. This is less true in other areas of education -- the ones that don't have an interpreter to tell you what, or at least where, you have done wrong.
I'm not arguing that contemporary universities are well-designed. They are not and there are many archaic elements ripe for disruption. I just want to point out that we have a pretty strong bias that is not necessarily generalizable.
(Personal bias note: I thought undergraduate education was intellectually useless, but absolutely worth it as a life experience. Now, I'm in graduate school and I am shocked by how much I enjoy it. Additionally, I am building something this summer to correct a structural problem with academia that I see in my own field of interest.)
I'm not arguing that contemporary universities are well-designed. They are not and there are many archaic elements ripe for disruption. I just want to point out that we have a pretty strong bias that is not necessarily generalizable.
(Personal bias note: I thought undergraduate education was intellectually useless, but absolutely worth it as a life experience. Now, I'm in graduate school and I am shocked by how much I enjoy it. Additionally, I am building something this summer to correct a structural problem with academia that I see in my own field of interest.)