I’m on the advisory board of my school’s comp sci department. Each of us advisors has our own experience and perspectives on what useful things the students should learn. Sometimes I’m arguing that no, they probably don’t need to learn RPG, just because that’s what one of my colleagues sees a lot in their branch of industry. In turn, they argue that some of my recommendations are more useful at SF tech startups than in long-term positions in the companies local to the school.

Without those various perspectives, you end up with students learning all kinds of goofy things just because no one said, nah, they’re probably not going to need that.