On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:33 +0200, jaromil wrote: > still, myself being a person working in education, i think the problem > is more structural: i'd rather question why students in a school > should be contributing to a professor's project, rather than starting > one on their own? they could learn how to work in a more horizontal > and creative way, even if the project will be less interesting in the > eyes of the director, who should be there to give suggestions and help > on students projects, not the contrary.
This sounds a lot like elementary/middle/high school thinking being applied to University where it really doesn't apply (no offense) There are plenty of opportunities for students to do their own thing as course work (or directed studies courses, if possible). Professor-run projects are generally larger, more complicated things, that some random student on their own is not about to write in a term or two. They often live longer than a single student's entire tenure at the University... Science(TM) tends to be a bit more difficult and elongated than sitting down to write some straightforward program. Often you don't even know if what you're attempting is possible, or will work well at all. If it's straightforward for a student to sit down and write the program in a few months, it's probably not very interesting or relevant... Cheers, -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
