Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.
No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.