text: Second, student-designed projects will enable students to be more independent. Choosing what to spend time on can be a difficult choice and if students are given that opportunity to pick what they do, then they are getting the chance to be independent. If teachers make the decisions all the time, then students learn to be told what and how to do things. Students need to learn how to do things by themselves. To illustrate, a child gets told how and what to do his whole life and then when he becomes an adult he cannot make decisions for himself. This is because the child never got the chance to choose how to do something by himself, he was always told by an adult. Students should not have to face the same problem, they should be more independent and have a say in their assignments. All in all, letting students design their summer projects will allow them to be more independent.