Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

That was a position taken to an extreme as a rhetorical device, not an accusation levied at a specific team. It is often useful to examine limiting cases of certain positions, specifically, the one quoted in the very first post of the thread:



There are two extremes here - the students doing all the work, and the mentors doing all the work. Observing differences between them provides useful insight into what happens when you trend in either direction. In this case, it can show why one maybe should care, in some capacity, about who does the work.



See above.

I don't think I'm getting my point across...The rhetorical device you're taking to the extreme is a straw man and is what is confusing the issue. There are not two extremes...There is one extreme (students do everything) and one case to the right of 50/50, but to the left of the extreme of "mentors doing all the work".

We can't have reasonable discourse about two different methods of running teams when actually nobody is doing the second method as stated and it's an inflammatory construct designed to push public opinion to the opposite side of the spectrum.