&gt; Group projects and emphasizing socialization is a crutch that incompetent teachers use to force their intelligent students to do their job for them.<p>I find the opposite true in my career. Business is 95% about how you interact with others; whether that is teaching, listening to, meeting with, understanding morale, etc.<p>Let&#x27;s look at Agile, socialization is at the key, people over processes, scrum meetings every morning looking for who needs help and who can help, sprint meetings with product managers selling ideas to engineers and engineers discussing how it will be solved, retrospectives where everybody tries to figure out what went right&#x2F;wrong and what to do better.<p>Then there is pair programming, which is the definition of a group project.