Skills and training for the modern world…

[Consider this a rebuttal to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul….]

In my old day job and my previous academic life, I loved to work with young people. In academia, you have to enjoy that, or you shouldn’t be there—even research teams do that. In my R&D day job, I was often a mentor and loved to sit at the lunch table to exchange ideas with bright, young minds. Sure, it bothered me that some preferred Java to Fortran—maybe I was tolerated by them only because I knew some C++–or they didn’t know what an LP...