Confessions of an Engineering Washout

This is an interesting article (recently Slashdotted) about a guy that dropped out of engineering school and joined a liberal arts program because the quality of the engineering education was so poor. This is in a similar vein to what Sam recently blogged about (post: I saw a link to the same article in one of Sam's comments)

Since I'm attending a SmartyPants U, I can sympathize. Many of the professors either don't care if you really learn the material or are teaching material that is so out of date or irrelevant that it is painful to slog through. With the advent of disruptive forms of education, I think universities, regardless of their name, will need to do a better job or their role may be minimized in the future.