text: Similarly, students don't like being told what to do, especially if the work is time consuming. If a teacher wants the students to do a good job on a summer project that takes a very long time, then might as well let the student decide what to do his/her project on. If a student doesn't know much about a certain topic, he wouldn't want to do it. He would keep pushing the project till the very last day to finish it. The student would procrastinate more often. For example, if a young scholar never understood a certain topic and the teacher assigned him that topic, then he wouldn't want to do it. He would keep pushing it off because he doesn't have anything planned for the project since he shows interests in other topics/subjects. He would end up getting a bad grade because he wouldn't have put a lot of effort in his project. Another example: if a learner loves Science and always connects everything to Science, he would want his summer project to be based on Science, but his teacher assigns him a project based on History. The student wouldn't have much interest in the project and would end up doing not so well on it. Most students tend to put less focus into a project if they don't have much knowledge about the main topic.