What American universities can learn from Germany (2016)
please don&#x27;t.
I live in germany and our academic system is flawed to the extreme.
Even the dual systeme.<p>I mean common our universities and schools has a worse system than america (and a lot of other countries).
The dual system should&#x27;ve bridged school and labor skills, however it does not work that good. Especially not in IT.
The problem a lot of kids come from different schools, some have higher educations some not. so the school tries to learn a lot of things which they should&#x27;ve teached in schools already, while they train you not a lot of practical things in school. 
Also a lot of practical things you learn in the school are mostly already learned since the school progresses way too slow.<p>As already said I think the problem starts already in the kindergarten&#x2F;early school. And then progresses in middle schools.<p>in germany you basically get thrown to life either after your school years or after your university&#x2F;higher schools. You always start with nearly no experience, even after you did apprenticeship in dual system you are not prepared for your life.<p>worse is even if you did something in west germany it could be slightly different in other parts of germany, so switching schools can be really really hard.<p>our system basically enforces &quot;lax-iness&quot; until a certain point in life and than you either get it or you get lost in the system. and it get&#x27;s worse due to our polictics that loosens more and more rules